Finkam was an odd name, half German, half Jew. Fink was an easily identifiable Jewish name, but Fink also meant finch in German. It was…

So when I came down for morning coffee, Asya was already in the kitchen, a large pot on the stove with steam rising in rivulets,…

and you are finally realizing – having confirmed—that I felt superior to you. Ha! You say (chortle, snort,, huff – amateurs love those words but…

A great keening echoed over the rolling downs. It was a piercing, gut wrenching sound. A haunting melody accompanied it, rising from pipe and fiddle.…

What I have learned from stories I learned from trees Stories are the glue Stories are the joy Stories are the clay Stories are how…

My mother loved the ocean. When she was a kid in the Bronx, her dad used to give her, her older sister Henrietta, and her…

Promises? what are those? Trump has made a shitload of promises and has kept none of them...except the promise to destroy our government. I am…

Carmen leaned back in the rocker on her porch. She shaded her eyes and looked out over the barren strip of dirt someone had the…

Agatha clutched John's hand it was a small hand even for an 8-year-old. His fingers were long though, piano fingers. She envisioned those fingers gliding…

She tried to picture herself the way she was then, fifteen years ago. Fifteen. Numbers are numbers. She remembers becoming a total of fifteen years;…

She knew it was the beginning of the end, that first time she had to work so hard to reach organism that the achievement was…

There was a chill in the air. Somehow there was always a chill in the air. Winter lodged itself into the marrow, and from there…