It was fall and my brother Aaron was in an Elvis phase. Every Saturday he would wake our sister Jeanie up and she would kneel in front of him on the bed and slick his hair back with Vaseline and paint sideburns down to his chin with magic marker.
Read MoreIt was out along Cold River Road where I first encountered that owl. I’d finished up my shift at Green Mountain Power and it was getting dark–was getting darker, in fact, earlier each day that time of year…
Read MoreHe’s tall, the tallest guy I’ve ever been with, structured face, stubble on his chin, runner’s build, practices yoga.
He balances a blanket under his arm, a bottle of white wine and two glasses, and nods at the large plate he set for us, filled with cheeses and meats and crackers and olives and all of these things I see in restaurants but never actually order…
Read More10-Piece 2.25"-10.25" Glass Nesting Bowl Set / “Nesting set of 10 includes a size for every task.”
There’s something infinitely pleasing about nesting bowls, how they fit into each other like round, glass Matryoshka dolls.
Read MoreIn the four months since production had been indefinitely halted, the airship Ishtar’s naked keel had taken on the skeletal aspect of a beached and rarefying whale.
Read MoreTonight, neither of us are in our own bodies. In fact, no one here will ever be. But everyone still likes to talk about how unnerving it is to be outside themselves, to adjust to their new bodily possessions over tentative sips of cheap red wine.
Read MoreSow seeds outdoors, as soon as soil can be worked in spring, at depth of ½ inch.
When Maisie was born, Daniel wasn’t there. There were no stories about her birth that included him.
Read MoreWhen Hammond was very young, he had a hard time sleeping. It felt as though there were millions of tiny things crawling around beneath his skin, and the small, small spaces that separated each of these tiny things was known to him, and so it wasn’t just that there were millions of them, but that he never felt whole, and that he felt always on the brink of dissolving.
Read MoreDolly thought she smelled the sea. No. It was him. She hated his sexiness.
Read MoreYour mother is sending you to the underworld. You can only bring one item with you. Which do you choose?
Read MoreAfter the dog died in January, Bob's typical mopiness turned to nostalgia for his childhood house. It had been a long winter with a lot of cold and not much snow.
Read MoreWhy does anyone care what I eat? He asked her. Everyone cares she said
Read MoreThere was a brown spot on the wall. It looked a little raised, but that could’ve been an illusion created by the combination of the color and the wall’s texturing.
Read MoreEllen started baking in the afternoon and did not stop until around midnight, (after the soufflé had fallen, after the tea kettle cried, after she remembered, suddenly, what she had been trying all day to forget), she was tireless
Read MoreVic noticed a long-haul configuration dead-stopped a few tracks removed, both doors on both sides of its baggage car open such that he could see clean through, policemen on the near side lowering guns they had just pointed into the cavity of the railcar.
Read MoreI kissed someone for the first time last night. It wasn’t the first time I kissed anyone but it was the first time I kissed this person. He’s about to be famous—or already is, a little.
Read MoreHe hates guns, so I buy a gun. I hate guns, so I buy a gun. Here I am, sauntering up to the glass case of a sporting goods store.
Read MoreMaiden Estep leads the Red Hat into Number Six at Bear Town, where the mine starts. They walk at first, back to the crawl, miles deep inside, under the town of Grundy. Already, they have cut a strip in both directions, and soon they’ll be coming back through the middle, robbing pillars it’s called, the most danger any of them have been exposed to except the old guys, the robbing line and the dynamite guys.
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