“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...

Payments, payments, complaints and insurance. Decisions, decisions, yes/no/maybe, scale of preference. God, parents, manager, director,...

The lake smelled brackish, like it was trying to be something it was not. Tessa sat on the edge of the dock and dipped her feet in. Forty...

My grandfather was known as a straight shooter - even with me, his only granddaughter. He taught me venison was Santa's reindeer;...

Clothes need something to cling to, a plump curve to give them shape. They need happy meat to help them hang so that you can be sure...

It is too early for me to be sitting at the bar when I see your name written on the wall. The sun is still out and I might consider this...

I’m born Norwegian, a new American, and soon to become an Israeli citizen, too. Who needs three passports when many people in the world...

A stop I never wanted Turn back the Chungking Express Turn back these Ashes of Time Turn back the Nanking Treaty Lin Heung Tea House lost...

When we were alive and well in the long ago, beautiful denizens of the deep, dark night, love was in charge. Love ran the power stations,...

I hear you in the kitchen, Opening cabinets and clinking silverware. Splitting avocados. Mashing your fork into each slice until green...

Melody sat under the single lightbulb in her garage, edged between the space heater and the last pumpkin left in the bin at Trader Joes....

The afternoon was scalding and inhospitable. The man and the woman walked slowly down the sidewalk. They walked in silence, looking...