That was the last I saw of her. Her wrists tightened under the clasp of the mercury-plated handcuffs, sedated into a deep sleep. According to

The holy silence of the street was still disturbed by stragglers hurrying home before Yom Kippur’s seizure of the roads. Valentin walked up to the

As the son of a nurse, I spent many summer afternoons at my granddad’s house while Mom worked long shifts at the hospital. Granddad’s house

My heels clicked against the sidewalk with a growing impatience. My old house was on this street, and I longed to see it again. I

They had him on coolers because he was quiet and he didn’t complain about the cold on his hands. That was what the woman who

Before I can blink my eyes open, hers are already darting up and down. Morning dew drips from the window, something I’ll have to pat

“You cut it really close,” my sister observed.  All of her entertainment for the three hour train ride – a rose gold iPad, a Delia

Ari twisted his upper body and squirmed against the leather restraints holding his wrists to the bedrails of the hospital bed. The itch from the

Lieutenant Mandy Clarke flight-checked her MH-60S Seahawk, as usual, touching and noting the tail rotor gearbox, running her fingers along the drive shaft housing, checking

The café was small, tucked between a hardware store and a secondhand bookshop on a side street off Houston. Its name, Les Fleurs Perdues, was

Twenty years ago on a pleasant summer day, I rode the Muni to Ocean Beach. The train car was crowded, as I recall, filled with

While Kai is practicing for a 10K marathon, I am deep-cleaning the bedroom because he complained the dust triggered his allergies and interfered with training. 

If you decide this story is incoherent, I want the world to know I have a constellation of three freckles under my wrist from when

“I’m sorry,” Yuki whispered with a grimace. “I only see you as a friend.” Those two sentences were branded on all the grooves of Angel’s

Michael felt that his best chemistry was with the friends of the soil. Pruning his Jasmine was the most affection he had given anything all