The images are grainy, the figures move jerkily across the screen, the angles all wrong. But it’s him alright. There is no doubt about that.
“You sure, you wanna see this?” the detective asks me. He tastes this poison every …
It’s essential to remain as calm as possible in these situations. The more excited you get the sooner it will be over – in a bad way that is – as your organs shut down, one by one. My teeth …
The first home I made for myself was in Italy. I had come there for my senior year of college with the intention of remaining after I graduated and seeing if I could turn myself into a writer. I had decided …
I’m carrying so many bouquets I can’t even open the door to my old beat up car. My boyfriend Max rushes to help me, and we laugh as I dump the flowers, adorned with ribbons and cards, into the back …
It was the late 1940s in Elmhurst, Queens. Our neighborhood was all-white, although a moderate walk from 55th Road would reveal one or more black families living on a hill with a nickname I cannot write all these years later. …
“B Dublee dubblel dubblee K,” my grandmother said triumphantly, when I asked her to spell the name of her hometown. She smiled happily, glad she had remembered. My mother interjected, “That’s not how you spell it! It’s b,e,double l, double …
“We found blue harem pants!” my best friend, Lizzy’s, voice shouts at me through my phone. “It’s totally a sign, you have to be Princess Jasmine this year.”
“Slow down, Lizzy,” I say, sleepily. “I was napping, I need a …
Shel came up to Lisa’s room, sat on the bed and offered her some pot. As they smoked she glanced at the mirror over her dresser and said, “I think there’s another world inside of mirrors.”
Shel tilted his head, …
It’s a long time since I’ve bothered with anybody else. Even longer since I’ve cared what they thought of me.
Oh, I know when the children pass my gate that they peer through the railings, in the hope they might …
There was a barking in the distance. I fought my way through a thick fog. It grew louder and louder until suddenly it was right next to my ear. I opened my eyes and realized I had been dreaming. But, the barking. That was very …