The city streets had begun to empty as white powdery snow fell outside. More than sixty people had crowded their way into Merit’s Coffee—far more

  “Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end of it.” (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) # One time there was a woman

“James, wake up. I hear something.” Alice rubbed her foot against my leg. Four in the morning, in mid-January. The house was cold. My brain

“It’s funny,” he said, coughing, “but the one person I really want to see before I die is precisely the one person who won’t come.”

When I wake up, I’m confused. I have to lie in bed for a few minutes to get my bearings. What day is it?  Wednesday.

I Three times, Charlotte leaned against me, jumped off and walked to the pole to hug it. Every time she came back to lean against

Mara couldn’t pinpoint the exact moment she fell out of love with her husband, Dan. Maybe it was watching him brush his teeth with his

When Yamashita’s girlfriend got angry with him, she would start swearing in English.  He couldn’t always understand the words, but he knew they were coarse.

The music thrummed so loud that Janelle felt the vibrations. The beat pulsed through the walls and into her bones. As lyrics pierced her brain,

“Sidney, we need to talk.” Those are words no partner wants to hear. This sounds ominous, he thinks. They’re seated at the kitchen table and

Reggie had this idea for a bomb. But like, the bomb didn’t explode like other bombs did. It didn’t split an atom or push apart

The evening art class at the high school was crowded with middle agers. The much younger instructor kept brushing the palm of his hand against

Celia Jeffers stood at the front of the viewing room, watching the people file in. They came in slowly, with the hesitancy of the aging,

Rich Robinson slowly opened his eyes, unaware of how long he’d slept or what time it might be. He expected to see his wife, Gina,

We met because Monica blew Bill in the Oval Office and spilled some of the load onto her darling blue dress and hung that unwashed