Every Thursday, our geezer bus makes a run to a nearby megastore. I’m usually among the half-dozen or so Grandview Senior Living residents on board.

Brenda is a plus-size waitress in a sports bar full of mostly well-behaved patrons. She isn’t everyone’s cup of tea but her shape doesn’t dissuade

He sits down on the end of the park bench she occupies and turns to her. She smiles. “My throat is sore,” he rasps.  

This is a multiple choice test. For the best results, please answer intuitively without thinking too much about each question. Circle the answer that you

For as long as I can remember I was in love with Philomena. I can picture her now sitting in dappled shade under an apple

I’m on a ladder painting the Peterson’s gutters when Josie’s mother pulls up in that old green Chrysler of theirs, thick black smoke shooting out

Click of a cigarette-lighter makes me turn my head– you aren’t supposed to do that here, are you? I thought that was a thing you

*CW: This piece contains references to suicide.    The mirror over the sink in the bathroom tells me I do not exist. I know I

Until then I wanted to love you, but I wasn’t sure I could.  You grew inside me, expanding my belly to an impossible mound. From

We are in Tangle. Fierce, heat and sweat and pumping blood. Skin singing, fingertips tracing jawline and collarbone and pelvis, easing, deep breaths, slow and

September 3 Dear Diary: I cannot believe that I am doing this.  It seems like such a 12-year-old girl thing to do – Dear Diary

Thanksgiving had just ended when the weather report predicted a major snowfall overnight. With the Midwesterner’s prescience of being snowed in (and possibly losing electric

Ray Martin lay prone on the shag carpet of his living room and waited for the Japanese army to move in on him. Outside, the

After you called, I put the tea kettle on and sat in the kitchen. I like watching the steam curl up, slender and sinewy, from

The parking lot is hot. Humid too, which is abnormal for these parts. We circle the facility, searching for the way in.  There’s a desk,