We hunt for shadows through the dark, hidey passages in the sixteenth-century building with a sloth as a walking partner.…
I kept scratching at the wound with a scaly scab. Ma kept yelling at me not to scratch. “It’ll leave…
Wow, it’s been a very slow day. The slow days are the worst around here, which is strange when you…
We buried my brother with his dreams. On colored scraps of paper my young son, Teddy, and I scrawled all…
Confusion and chaos lifted. All was still and clear in his mind. Only hours earlier he was filled with misery,…
In eighth grade, I wore tons of make-up to Catholic school. I was a rebel. Trying to hide my outbreaks,…
When I was a small child my grandparents would take me blackberry picking. It was usually late August when the…
No amount of education and training can prepare you for death or a pandemic. I knew a doctor who went…
According to a book I read, the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Hindus, and Japanese believed the Earth hatched from a mundane egg.…
I had only one job – decipher a human being from a computer. I was a professor of philosophy with…