"Oh!  And everyone pleeease take home a centerpiece..." she said, her mouth too close to the microphone as chairlegs scraped the floor and hands patted pockets checking for ac...

The runningboard's rustflakes looked like cruel scales in the sickly pallor of the sodium lights.  The idling car seemed to hulk reptilian, an exposed stalker exhaling on the empty parking ...

It's well past 1 in the morning, nearly 2, as she sinks to the floor of her son's tree house.  Taking a half-full pack of Virgina Slims and lighter from their place inside a double-bagged s...

His mammoth eyes teared trapezoid cries and mother could never console him.

"I just know he'll grow up to be an, "she tumbled on the word as it scratched her way up her throat. ...

She looked around this place - Disney World.  She had heard much about it in her own country.  She had heard they serve food on sticks.  Hot dogs, doughnuts, pizza, even.  Sh...

It has taken me

far too long to say I have

accepted you, dad.

But to hear me say

"you suddenly complete me"

still s...

The snow was coming down in big, wet flakes, and we had been shut in for three days straight.  The only thing keeping us from getting on each others' nerves was the steady conversation of t...

The anniual Jade Dragonfly migration passes thropugh Casper, WY each summer.  This summer, Mattie and I were 17, and we were migrating, too...

The 777 Boston airliner took off from a stanstill on the sweating tarmac

August had been unseasonably cool save for the 26th; today it was unbearable...