Why are you sailing? is a question I get asked with an emphasis on the you as though mostly as a question within a question. Me, particularly me and sailing combined in a question could be what anybody actually gets, but not upon first meeting usually maybe accompanied by a nodding and hearty glad you … Read more
One The summer the girl with the pigtails went missing, Manny was just a little boy running barefoot through Big Momma’s bayou—half-wild, sunstruck, and blissfully unaware that his life was about to split open like storm clouds. He never knew the girl when she was alive. But she would be the first to show him … Read more
There is a point past weeping, Dr. Christensen thought to himself, when the pain numbs. He peered at his face in the back of a spoon. The distorted image magnified the broken capillaries under his eyes. From medical school, he knew his lacrimal glands were responsible for his bloodshot eyes and dilated pupils. He … Read more
Shotgun Annie Annie’s German Shepard was loudly barking from outside, and when she went to the back door and looked out Killer was jumping against a tree truck and yelping at a distressed cat yowling somewhere in the tree. “Killer, shut up!” Annie shouted, leaning out the door as if he’d listen. “Come!” When … Read more
We were giving the kids a bath when the lights in the bathroom went off by themselves. Sheila and I looked at each other in the dimness and laughed. Funny, I said. Whats weird is the hallway lights are on. In fact, no other lights are off upstairs. Ive never seen that. Our house was … Read more