I finally understand it. These past days, i have been filled with the existential nausea caused by the sheer existence of such a monster as Donald Trump, as I know many of my fellow countrymen have been taken ill as…

Today I Was God Today I was God: I Cared nothing, or barely thought My garden spade, destruction to bequeath To creatures whose worlds were finely wrought, And who, scurrying, had no time to question why. Today in my Godly…

The rose was red The girl was dead Dawn, a new day She is still away. Child-like verse I see an image of a nurse I wake, turn my face to the wall No one to call What happens when…

My wife and I were sleeping the sleep of the comfortable, the contented, when the phone rang. We’d been snowbound for a week, the woods shrouded in drifts and silence. I picked up the phone in the dark. The number…

I walk to work through the sea of tents and shopping carts, through a hodgepodge of men and women who somehow keep their sanity even when I have trouble keeping mine. The difference is that they might be miserable but…

The sound of a loud male voice in her living room woke her from a nap. In the living room, two male neighbors, tall, white and old, towered over her peace-loving 5' 6" Japanese American husband, who was holding his…

"Hello?" Estelle paused. "Hello, Bill? Chip?" She hoped it was one of her two best friends from school calling her. She needed to talk to someone, but not to anyone in her family, who were all gathered in the den…

The early morning sun creates long shadows from the trees in the city park. The shadows look like mangled stick figures that are frozen in a scream. A dog with dirty wiry fur licks a greasy paper plate next to…

Take this day out of my life story: I was working with the composer of THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD, my narrative feature film and he asked, "Do you think you'll get into Sundance?" I felt very confident that it would…

There is no other concern in my writer mind these days but the terror, the stink, the blemish, the disease, of the creeping fascism that is smothering our country, dampening our communal spirits, and making us all very very sick…

I spent two days in Reno last week walking precincts with members of the Culinary Local 225, the union that represents workers in the hotels and casinos. They are the most politically powerful union in the state and strongly behind…

I needed some advice, insight, conversation from you about what to do about college. You had accomplished so much: the first in your family to go to college. With your degree in mechanical engineering, you pulled your family into the…