I never really wanted children. My mother was difficult and mentally ill. She struggled with me as she struggled with…
In 1959, Elvis Presley bellowed from the radio. Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper did too. I was in high…
“I don’t ave’ any bees and honey and besides, I ave’ cock and hen lil’ ones. I can do it…
I got the job easily. Perhaps, too easily. I got my nursing degree in June and had been looking for…
Language is odd. They don’t know why humans developed it or even developed the capacity for it. It’s useful in…
The neighborhood nominated me. To travel on the rocket to Mars. Old Man Beets had been tinkering for a while…
They had been extracting blood for years after the human genome was mapped. Who are we? What culture or race…
What sound does the sunrise make? Dr. Clark decided it was the sound of trickling water. He had a memory,…
You have to narrow your world to expand your world. I don’t know who told me that. Maybe I read…
Babababa. Baaabaaabaaa. Corey squished his eyes shut tightly. It was there, somewhere. Not here, but elsewhere. He knew it. Bababa.…