Heart Shaped Uterus
“What I wanted was a big warm tub and a baby that just slipped right out like a little seal…”
Dreamers Reading Room
A Dog Called Orion
“I call him Orion because under the blackest of skies he lies like a gentle beacon, embodying the spirit of a warrior…”
Write About It
“Tell you about what, or rather, who was left behind—on the gravel road outside of my house…”
The Choy Lee 50
“On Aquidneck Island in Narragansett Bay, I picked up a little work as a bareboat skipper…”
The Calling
“Her eyes catch a medic alert necklace. On his right, she sees a rotary telephone, the handset firmly hooked…”
The Fourth Face of Eve
“My mother lifted me up to kiss my grandfather in his casket. I had never kissed my grandfather while he was alive…”
Dance While the Music Plays
“Many embraced vitriolic authoritarians, who blamed our problems on the easiest scapegoat available: the immigrant…”
Oh, Seroma
“The pillagers with their noisy knives, their silent radiation. You look like a moon crater with a shallow lake…”
Goodbye Dad
The hospital room is crowded with chairs, monitors, an IV and the startling noise of my father’s breathing…