NONFICTION
I slumped in front of a massive desk, a passive patient corroded with failure and dread.
My dad was an inveterate theatergoer in the old country where theatre reigned supreme before the Soviets, under the Soviets, after the Soviets.
The land here is scarred and wrinkled.
With great reluctance, I agree to meet a cousin for an outside lunch…
At twenty, the world is yours because you’re beautiful. But never acknowledge your beauty, or it makes you a bitch.
another self emerges between assignments, to follow the dog into winter dusk and watch the snow fall. Not sociable, but perceiving
Kate Winslet always reminded me of my mom. Maybe that’s why, even to this day, I get defensive of Rose from Titanic when people call her stupid or shallow…
Infant’s Name: A
Delivery Date: August 1, 2002
The new octopus at the children’s aquarium was named Athena, and as we waited for her to emerge, I thought of the almost-too-faint second line on the pregnancy test three days before.
Through the dusty window in my parent’s bedroom, I watched the neighbor’s cattle graze.
How do you even know when you’re there—at the epicenter?
No matter how you try to ignore it, you look like him. You look like your father.
Our mission is not a drunken pub-crawl, per se, but examination of all possibilities…
Sound engineers believe Alan Rickman possessed the perfect male voice. Early acting teachers told him he sounded like he was speaking from the back of a drainpipe.
It was an engagement of secrets in sunlit spaces.
My mother has been dead for two hundred and forty-three days. I’ve had plenty of things in my refrigerator for longer.
The weeks go like this: accepting, horny, hopeful, sad. I’m four different people trying to establish one perspective on a major life event – on the creation of life itself.
The hamantaschen have followed us from apartment to apartment, all of the kitchens dark, cramped, cluttered.
I run with a pack of older boys from our neighborhood, the only girl.
Could someone hating you really cause a physical unease? Sure, why not.
Share some abandon.
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