The first time Victor and Jorie made love was a week after the party. She couldn’t call it shagging or boinking or fucking or any…

was a view of two neon signs that said "fresh meat" and "bass bait," respectively, which was bad enough, but the view from the hotel…

Every city seen Awakening from the air is upthrust They are fists of light shaking a dare towards the clouds Taunting mountains with unrestrained hubris…

I’m missing places I’ve never been. The pandemic pause has derailed and initially dampened my wanderlust. But the urge to adventure and explore has raged…

[Two men from prior scene two years later.] From the front hall, James Belcher called, “Father, we’ve arrived,” as he handed his topcoat to an…

She sat in the car at Walgreen's Parking lot again. The glow of the damp, dark pavement mixed in with the lights of cars coming…

The quiet dancer in the blue sequined dress laid like a corpse in the person size indentation in the concrete. Assistants walked from room to…

The place was big The driveway long The meadow sweet and bright, the dogs wild and free Everything was set out for the wedding Gardenias,…

Things were different at Kimmie’s, inside the yellow house with the purple door. The first time Jorie stayed for dinner, after the beach-side birthday party,…

[Ongoing story, here early in the story: Merrill internal dialog after their mother leaves in the middle of the night. Only he saw her go.…

When I was 10, my Great Uncle Bill, who I remember only as an elderly man with a hearing aid that I saw at big…

We talked without stopping about Kira, the Black girl who wore the belly-expanding jean overalls, and Sharon, the smoker out by the rock who disappeared…