This is going to be very quick, because I can’t tell it slowly. Just imagine you’re holding onto my hands, okay? Keep my hands in yours so that they’re not doing anything else. I had a baby in 2009. A little girl. I was going to do it the natural way, breathing techniques, nightmares about […]
Ever since Mary’s hip replacement, it was Jack’s responsibility to get the mail. Every afternoon (excepting Sundays and federal holidays), he walked down the block to the trashbox–as he called it–and sorted out the charitable requests, which he hid under his shirt then tore to bits in the bathroom so Mary wouldn’t see. Way too […]
After the grenade went off under him, they had no choice but to cut off Jon’s arm. When Jon woke, he still felt the arm’s weight, but it wasn’t there. He fell back into the cot, eyes closed, and he saw it, his arm, his left arm, dancing in a field of purple pansies. How […]
January is not my favorite month. I suppose if I lived in Australia or Brazil I’d feel differently. But I don’t. I live in the northern hemisphere, where January is cold, dry, and dreary. You would think the perfect solution would be to publish a string of lovely, uplifting stories, the kind that makes the […]