Does there come a day in every woman’s life when she decides, this is the time I’m going to take my underwear off? If there is, I’ve yet...

Her silky white skin glows under the sun With the deepest soul stealing eyes Her lips curve with each word spoken Her head tilts as she...

She steps into her long black shell, Gray buttoned blouse closed at her neck, Gold Star of David hidden well, Her heart alone can feel...

Do you see? Do you see how the sky breaks and weeps for you? How it births stars hoping to envelope you. And you unknowingly hold the...

My hand floats out the open window, a pieridae surfing the stream of heavy July air. The other hand fingers an organic condom in the...

The long and brilliant days of August 1960 are dwindling as a girl swings round and round a swaying metal pole that props up the striped...

I returned to Plainview, Long Island, my hometown, for the funeral of my friend’s mother. I used to go to my old house often, to visit my...

Abu Issam was smoking a cigarette on the sidewalk under the awning of his bakery. “This damn rain. It’s keeping the customers away,” he...

An opaque, burgundy fluid pools beneath the refrigerator door. Its viscosity obscured by the cheap fluorescents lighting the kitchen...

Everything is fine as it appears on the surface. You are engaged, your home is furnished you look better than you’ve ever looked. But...

Your mother to your father, “She lets boys touch her, but not us.” How can you explain? At 15 making your mother jealous is farthest from...

“So, I was thinking, what if people who are cremated go to one part of heaven and people who aren’t, go to another?” I say. Everyone...