A story is a wish for a new world. A good story delivers that world with a tectonic shock, destroying what has come before.
Roland had sworn that he would never return to la Bretagne
This recipe has been in our family for generations. Generations.
She stands spotlighted under the streetlamp, her head lowered and a backpack over her shoulder
When the nightmares started was when I realized I was in trouble
To Penny, A remembrance, a prayer:
Outside of the health factories and the food factories and warehouses the size of hamlets, the human earth has hushed for a time
It’s that day of the month again, the day I pretend to be Matt
Most Sundays, Norma Jeane has to change clothes after church, but today she gets to stay in her good dress
After their backroom trysts, they often went for a pizza. She ate five pieces to his three
