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PoetryAnaphora
The question becomes one of questions and more questions. The question becomes which question to ask. The question becomes whether to ask it at…
FictionHomeGirl
When I was a child, the word most often applied to me was shy. Not true. I simply enjoyed watching. Everything. Every night, I would…
PoetryJohnny the Cat
tomorrow i'm gonna carry a casket the body of a kid I once raced in a long ago summer in San Jose high school…
Poetry, PoetryPrelude in E Minor or Milner Place Hoists Sail
We cannot go with you this time All-consuming night has swallowed the solemn moon So hightide and wave retire and the piano charms with…
FictionDavid’s Wife
Martha was dying. Her doctor knew it, her husband, David, knew it, and me being her caregiver, knew it too. The only one who…
Non-fictionPushing Potatoes at a Point in Time
A colorful mural climbed the wall of a building perched at the corner and I crossed toward its sunbathed warmth then stopped. Stretched across…
FictionAndrocles & Mars
I can feel my molecules. My fingers clench and press on the opposite hand’s knuckles, wrenching, small strands of sinew click back and forth, my hands…
FictionThe Cure
Don’t ask me why I thought this would work. It seemed as plausible as any of the other “cures” I’ve tried since the diagnosis.…
FictionThe Interview
This apartment is noisy. Have there always been so many sirens, so many cars, so many bubbling lights? Where on earth is everybody going?…


