It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again
He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore
She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line
We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.
He tries again to situate his gros… nose beneath his spectacles. He twists the silver toothpick in… and hunches now a little more towa… saying “Listen, dear, I’ve said a…
I don’t know if I’ll vote for president this year, something I’ve always done since 1960 when I turned old
The problem is, Priscilla grew up in a penthouse having parties whil… Biff came of age under a bridge fighting other trolls, he remember… When Pris calls his office and sa…
She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills
I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move
Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till
“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.
One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building
A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull
