I'm ravenous. It’s like this every year; I’m always so hungry toward the dark end of the season. The flaps of the tent flutter open to admit us, and I lift my ...
Bairn screams. He is a fat, dark plum, wet and shiny. Two small pokey pegs stick out of his slimy pink gums. His eyes are tight thin slits. I pull Sucky Ted ou...
A plus of glamping with my ex-husband Harry is that his wife Melissa is always prepared. No cans of beans for us: Melissa has filled a cooler with kale salad a...
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...
“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...
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 ...
The mothers are coated in a light layer of fuzz, but only the children have ever noticed. As babies, it was a velvet comfort, hazy and unremembered—a soft plac...
Christmas morning, during my sister’s visit, we came out to find a lion in the living room.
“We did this,” Indu said. “We wanted it that much.”
She grinn...
I’m sitting on the floor in front of my little house of cards. At four storeys, it’s nearly finished. I pick up the next card from the stack by my side and lay...
You read in an article that you can’t blame an addict for the things they do, because their brain is sending them constant signals that if they don’t use, they...
