What if -- and I'm just spitballing here -- we all got together and agreed to add a little dignity to that rickety old hamster wheel of...

We are capable of rich and life-altering intimacy--however fleeting--with the oldest of comrades, and the newest of acquaintances. We can...

You can exhale and close the heavy door behind you, wrestle it shut if you have to. You can lean against the inside of it and even click...

When Anna had lived with Walter for about a month, he decided to surprise her after school one day. He watched her board the bus and then...

It occurred to Walter, that if he would simply write his house number on the side of his trash can -- along with a few choice expletives...

The morning light is just lovely streaming through the enormous windows here. The veteran all of 15 minutes, I tell them that the seat...

Walter stood at the window of his unfurnished living room and watched his daughter saunter off toward the grouping on the corner. Each...

Walter was a man of science. He knew how to repair space modules and calculate the speeds of solar winds. But terrestrial conundrums were...

I believed that you would tell me when we'd had enough. I don't know why I thought I'd never get to it on my own. I think there must have...

I want to rewind to the part before our hearts shattered all to hell and we knew any better or anything at all and just sit here at the...

Passing Milfin, passing Loxley. You say don’t you remember coming down here, two lanes and those azaleas, demented, big as houses,...

I was sitting at a little table at Maiwand Kabob in Columbia the other day. In walks this fetching red head and she’s looking around for...

When you were out with your girlfriend down in the boondocks and your truck got stuck in the mud and there was no way to call someone to...

When I finally laid claim to the anguish in my own heart. When I understood it was of my own creation. I could begin to forgive myself...

I cannot know you the way you know you. The way your brother knows you. The way your lover does. But I can hear your heart bursting, and...