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I twisted through Varanasi’s suffocating maze, side-stepping skinny cows and men on motorcycles, their mouths blood-red from the local ch...

Towards the end of elementary, an older boy gave me the master key to the school. Weeks later, he would take the key back, but, for a lit...

Mom’s dad Wells came by one night. I watched him through the kitchen window, parking his car. Always a new sedan of some kind, never Germ...

I should’ve known I’d meet you. The limitless vineyard. The turtle-shaped cloud. Everything had a strange significance or the cabernet wa...

I drove into Vancouver from LA in time to have a late dinner with mom on the West Side before knocking out on her couch. I awoke at 3am l...

Grade six. I had a girlfriend. But it was following the same tragic pattern: an initial flirtation followed by a brokering of the relatio...

What set me off was that little mango-pyramid. It was lying there on the kitchen floor. A polyhedron of terror. ⠀ The morning had started...

He hit the gas coming out of the s-curve winding around the canyon, his diesel engine rattling, the sky an overcast of glare and gray tre...

I drank honey vodka from a coffee cup and waited for you to emerge. It had been a long day. So literal. So many talking-heads. At one poi...

I didn’t think I could get any lonelier after that summer, but when high school started this kid John had it out for me pretty much immed...