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Three weeks after the well ran dry, I fed a man to the hogs. The kitchen faucet drip had stopped. It had been a metronome companion,...

A fluttering noise interrupted Vishal’s deep slumber. His half-closed, sleepy eyes followed the sound from where it originated and was...

I. Death in Venice (Hollywood), August 2, 1976 Fritz Lang is dying in Los Angeles. But outside his window, he hears from all of...

Alanah started life on the cold blue-black slate of the kitchen floor. She lay in the wet slithering mess of childbirth, content. Curled...

I’d never have done this, made the trip all the way across the city on this draughty bus, if she hadn’t had the nerve to send me that...

In the arid dunes of the Gobi desert, I burrow under the surface to wait out the heat of the midday sun. I have no head or legs; my body...

A thump nudged James into consciousness. Resting on the empire sofa inherited from Brenda’s grandma, he’d tried to stay awake, but it’d...

Oscar picked the castle for our last night of a 10-day trip to Ireland. We’d worn on each other, like the ragged curtains that adorned...

The night is an old woman. She is not so old that she cannot remember her birth yesterday at 6:45 p.m. She remembers the questions of her...

You secure a research grant, you fly to Newfoundland and invite me to fly there too, join you at the airport. You say that you’ve missed...

When I cup my hands under the faucet, the water finds the cracks between my fingers and slowly pushes through. No matter how tightly I...

I explained it to the abbot in this way. The goose is a watchman. More than any other creature of Almighty God, it discerns the character...

Drew sighed tiredly. It was the middle of summer. Everywhere in the city smelled of hot grease and chemical attempts at flowers. People...

I had never been particularly interested in my period until three events occurred in the same week: I got dumped, I lost my job, and I...

Very rare: blue moon, bright Mars. Both rose just after sunset that late May evening. I stayed out in the backyard gazing up into the...

Awoke to a lonely cockroach, felt him skitter on my soul. Caught me home alone. The drapes hung open, radiator waited its turn. Prime...

Well, what could I do? The guy's ears were so elegant, as small as a girl's and close to his head. Plus, when he pulled his clothes out...

Whenever I touched my body, I experienced the warmth of life—throbbing of veins indicated its existence, fingers pressed against the skin...

She almost missed it. It lay hidden beneath a crimson oak leaf, a brittle casualty of the approaching winter. A person less observant...

My grandfather, Don Arcadio, has been telling me about growing up in an orphanage in Parral, Chihuahua after the revolution. We’ve been...