Lila starts, awakening on the family room couch, a blanket noosed about her torso and legs. In her nightmare, a monstrous tree leafed in...

I watch the water lift the ships to pass, which explains why I don’t make it to the airport nor to San Cristobal de las Casas, nor into...

your own skin until I walked in on my mother carving herself like clay molding her body into one of a better woman engraving a grateful...

People have a bad habit of falling in love with me at bus stops, in taxi cabs, on motorcycles, in secret labs. It saved a lot of money...

She had last seen him thirty years before in an abrupt end to a whirlwind romance. She remembered the glance over her shoulder as she...

Thinking about Tanner tonight starts with a bottle of Dijon mustard, the worst condiment if you ask me. Though, I can’t remember if I’ve...

I will never forget that day, I was only five years old The atmosphere was somber, everyone sad and morose I stood in a building that I...

I go on a drive with you. The destination is not known. That’s the point, the journey. Holding hands until one of us realizes that we’re...

her legs shook the eyes were fixed on his his gaze followed the tea dripping on her lap conference meetings in a foreign city no such...

The ocean has no time for this You are lost? So am I. And yet you feel alone. You stand up And you inhale Still, salty kindness in the...

Goodbye was like later, loser, don’t let college kill you, and then college killed you. Or the alcohol did. Or the car ride, wasted—I...

The summer Terra got pregnant with Maisy was the hottest since they’d started keeping track. She’d fallen asleep as the heat of the day...