I‘m under the sheets. Light jabs through the window on the near wall. Stand on your tiptoes and look out—go on. You’ll see an alley drowning in garbage. While you’re at it, […]

Ellen pulls the sweater tight around her, feels the strength of the wind begging her to let go, embrace the brisk cold of this November night.  Three twenty in the morning and […]

She didn’t remember me when we met again. It was at a tiny club in San Cristobal de Las Casas. Her boyfriend, Lucas, had offered to buy me a Bohemia, and in […]

Everybody has a story.  People are weird, especially when you look at what they do from the outside.  But once you get a little bit of the inside track, the skinny (as […]

When I got to my mother’s house the first thing I did was give her the once-over.  Old age was upon her.  Her face was gaunt with waxy wrinkles, and sunspots along […]

Katrin is a twenty-three year-old with a six year-old’s face. The first time I met her, I watched her drink neat rum without wincing. I couldn’t tell if it was responsible for […]

Prospectors call it pyrite, after pirate, swash-buckling thief of another’s wealth. The rest of us call the shiny bogus rock Fool’s Gold. My roommate Jerry has plopped a big hunk of the […]

The fox stood in carved silhouette against the quicksilver of the canal reaching inland from the Bay of Bengal. The shallow channel held the moonlight like a palm. I watched it forage […]

Irma Sandovar sits in her padded leather armchair sipping hot black coffee, her brown eyes wandering from the brilliant lights of the New York skyline northward across the bay to the foaming […]

A Lake of Reflections in a Room by T.R. Healy After work, after he locked the front door of his coffee shop, Elledge sat down at a table with the suggestion box […]