Lately I feel like I'm living in exile. Since my fall I've been laid up in the bedroom, propped up on the bed, a heavy…

Marla showed up to work the day after learning about the cancer. She'd told only Jenn, not her mother and definitely not her father. She'd…

Twilight falls, yet before the next dawning, As a decent night’s sleep they do mock, Writers pause, knowing soon they must welcome the moon, And…

Today in the woods, I saw spittlebugs on the branches of plants—small pieces of spit. Even after the gang left, I stayed in the yard…

Nothing can be done once you begin to fall. You can try to catch yourself and stop the downward plunge, or if that fails you…

“Nothing is going to change today, same shit, different day,” Dad told me this morning as I’m changing his messy diaper. It leaked so I…

“Evie, we need to do something tonight you may not like, and I hope you’ll say it’s okay.” I thought maybe Paul wanted to try…

Today, Lydia feels like a devil in a scratchy wool skirt and white blouse. Her hair is stuck to her face, with wisps pasted to…

She had a set of wishes. She wrote them down in her journal, each entry detailed out in her precise handwriting. When she was a…

When I was a kid, if we wanted money, we’d find it. I grew up in San Francisco on Second Avenue near Lincoln Way and…

Most days, I sit in a chair by the window. From the window, I can see the elementary school that is at the end of…

During World War II, along with most Japanese Americans and Japanese living in the U.S., my Japanese American husband’s parents – John and Masako –…