Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. -- Hannah Arendt   The problem with performing is that it's ad...

The train station in Carlinville, Illinois is nothing more than a ventilated brick box. Cement floor, a single bench, no heat for the winter...

You cooked dinner and I tried not to notice the small differences since I'd been gone. Mexican Night: simple taquitos. Corn. Black beans...

Bus Station flowers still cold from refrigeration hands wrapped around tightly. Red knuckled. Eye out for a bottle of wine. Bus will arrive...

There is no resolution, sometimes. Arguments over things less or more important matter more or less in an endless geography that makes up a ...

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds  Admit impediments." -Shakespeare “Love is all right for those who can handle the psychi...

S ince I had the cash, I went against my better judgment and decided to pay rent. The next day I woke up in the late afternoon and walked up...

T he next day I woke up to someone banging on the door. I wasn’t sure of the time. I looked at my cell phone. The clock read 10:35. Shit. I ...

I’ve always hated the smell of hospitals. The particular odor of death, urine, and bleach that’s unique to all hospitals and nursing homes f...

T he final trouble came down to one hundred dollars. To call Brenda a vampire would be giving her too much credit; that would bestow on her ...

Dissent /Descent I have always loved you. Every kiss is an echo of years. There is a point in a man’s life where he understands more than he...

Will we be alright? She lights a cigarette, watches him carefully for contradictory body language. Yes , he says. We’ll be okay . She’s ner...