As I lay in the dark with you, my love, at my side, our old digi-clock struggles to remember that the new day starts in zeros. Funny old...

It had been quiet for a while. Things have been quiet before. There was a time in December when the air had become heavy with the...

Six months ago, Bill Murray, the last of the real celebrities, perished in a hospital bed. The doctor overseeing this titan of...

She was a vibrant creature, full of life and love and lust. Hair all the colours she could find, body pierced to enhance sensation,...

I 1 miss 2 holding 3 your 4 hand 5. 1 Not merely the self, the first-person subject pronoun, but also the collective I, the individual...

Stan loved it when the neighbourhood cats visited his garden. Tabbies, tortoiseshells, ginger toms – they were all welcome as far as he...

Turned down again by another potential seller, Derek stopped at Panna’s to have lunch. While enjoying the tofu stir-fry, he heard a...

1. One large spyglass. Brass and high-quality leather. Staining and identically formed indentations along the barrel suggest long use at...

# None of the neighbors know the boy who was killed in the park. They say his name because it was in the papers. Walking their dogs...

The elderly had scattered and then returned with hot drinks, horderves ending in I. Room was made, preemptively. The lecturer squeezed...

He’d been up all night, like usual. And for perhaps the final time he knew what his work was. Or call it play or focus or love. He knew...

At dusk, I leave dark rooms and packaging my sister’s DVDs and clothes. I go out onto the deck, replete with Spotify playlist and glass...

I get a chemistry set. I am a little overwhelmed by the powders and equipment and instructions. I find a simple experiment that involves...

Robbie stood at his bedroom window brazenly, his plush opossum toy resting tenderly between his hands. The older woman emerged from the...

That he owned a closet full of sweaters he had knit himself. That the sweaters were absolutely gorgeous. That nobody from his circle –...

I wouldn’t put my finger there if I were you. There, that’s a better grip. I can see you are not ready to face death. La muerte,...

Get a house plant, that's what they said. It'll be good for you, that's what the internet said. Maybe I will, that's what I said.

Steve’s leaving his wife. But not for me.

Louis Blake was born three months and twenty days before his biological father, Sam Coe, died in an explosion on the other side of the...

Here are a few of the standard questions all of us MBFS (Marble Ball Flower Salespeople) get asked. Included are several examples of possibl