Our neighbor stops over to say goodbye. His family has been renting the farmhouse next to our white summer cottage here in Maine.
Although we haven’t met, I...
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“Chinese people eat monkey brains. They cut their heads open and eat them while the monkeys are still alive.” The girl’s eyes are bright with spite. She ...
I read an article about the mind’s eye. It’s not something I’d ever thought much about, but apparently, if a researcher says, “Picture…” (“your breakfast table...
I was ten when we—my mother and I—visited Unical Teaching Hospital, the orthopedic section, to find a solution to the deformity I had developed in one of my fi...
There is a special kind of time that exists between moments of speculation and revelation. The time between ordering a meal and its arrival, the last half hour...
“If you ran your veins end to end, they’d wrap around the world twice,” Mr. Rogers declared with relish, while girls planted chewing gum in Beth’s hair.
Her...
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my new love is barely thirty years twenty nine years younger than my youngest son forty two years younger than my eldest daughter people stare at us in ...
Every day after the shop closes, Marjorie walks to the train station to catch the returning soldiers. It is London, 1943, and the war might never end, but woun...
But maybe he’d always liked the subversiveness of notions. Maybe from young he’d sensed the latent kink in the old five-and-dime aisles. The prim brutalism of ...
