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Hard Arabic light falls on the adobe hut. The little girl in rags begs for food from the soldier who killed her mother. Peycho Kanev is...

James, I’m glad to hear you’ve found something. I really am. Same with you, Chris. The pay’s not great but it could lead to something....

When I learned to tie my shoes the knot would awake and stretch its shoestring arms. I would run, chance a trip, crush the laces’ aglet...

like a torch, expect it light my way. Illuminate all the potholes. Let me know take the curve. But of course it fails at the...

I have many ways to pound at truths such as questioning the rain or putting a gloss of the sun on my head, only when weird calls at night...

If only they paid me by how long I felt I’d been here. The thought lingered in Frankie’s mind, and not for the first time. Second shift...

How can we help you today? Finality is its own reward. To profit from misunderstandings, the greatest division. Night sky, fluorescent...

If you really want to know how a man truly feels about you, get pregnant with his child. It was quite apparent that I learned absolutely...

drips with the rain of years. Dissatisfaction an umbrella for the shower of thoughts that end in puddles. The switchbacks up the mountain...

In the night’s restless quiet, I slide through a drop-down menu on my laptop’s glowing screen; not quite like booking a flight, I point...

The nakedness of this moment the silence— deeply nestled in the crevices of this deep nothingness I can hear and pretend not to like it...

Joanna knew it was her time. After ninety years on earth she had grown sick of it. There had been too many wars and too many deaths. She...

My favorite scenery, abrupt and shaded, the trail wrestling past the Night-Weeping Stone. This marks the spot where bandits killed a...

Filled with ghosts even the toilets were laced with tension on the deserted train almost like everybody had crammed in there for extra...

Lake Biwa, the largest in Japan, lurks unnoticed in the background. I watch men drop buckets down a well to water oxen harnessed to bales...

I tried to walk away without burning down the past but I kept looking back and seeing it not as it was but as I thought it was. I no...

After Ginsberg The dark hung heavy above me, in an apartment on the edge of town, at an hour when night and morning had called a brief...

This winding street in front of my lonely house reminds me of the winding noose which went around his neck and did not spare him. Like a...

I pull into the hotel parking lot, plowing through thick snow grayed by city life. I see her car. She’s already here. I park next to her...

Imagine you are thirty years old and retired. You didn’t sell any of the stock you acquired at the startup company you co-founded during...