I’ve taken my country for granted. And why shouldn’t I have? The statement makes one guilt-ridden, as though there were not enough guilt to go…

We might envy windswept leaves by late morning last night’s dewdrops have burned off revealing a fresh surface We might wish the breeze or sun…

Nosotros This was never a perfect country, not Xanadu, not Utopia, not even Denmark. It was instead a promise, a work in progress, an ideal,…

Coughing, violently, Agatha, took more of the the laudanum. The reddish brown liquid tasted bitter. Agatha squinted her eyes and took more. "My whole life…

My title is the nickname for the 9th season of the popular TV show “Dallas.” That’s because Bobby Ewing—younger brother of J.R., the lead villain…

Was playing the bassoon a phallic experience for me? That long mahogany instrument, like a sleek graceful log—actually it was a long tube, doubled over--and…

Garlic pops through the Earth even in the middle of winter. Steve was my "garlic guru". HE grew garlic, that was his main occupation. He…

A gaunt figure sat hunched in the saddle of his equally gaunt horse. Their shadow stretched to one side, a gigantic caricature highlighting every rib…

What isn't a sign this morning? Though there was no rain since yesterday's early morning, the ground was damp and the blades of grass glistened…

I have feared the traps of my own design since the beginning. Or at least since the beginning that I recall at this quarter to…

I don’t know whether I’d call it lucky or not, but I have been endowed with a sense of the frangible, temporary quality of life…

Nemesis Rassov’s life felt like a dream: a dream of dancing bullets, and elegant bloodletting, resulting in useful beauty; a dream in which she was…