It takes an inordinate amount of effort to grow cells. Tiny building blocks of life that squirm and writhe, thirsty for nutrients and...

1. You are not the tangled Spider Plant your seventy-five-year-old foster mom (five worlds ago) made you water every day. So stop sending...

It was a misty, rainy night when it appeared. I sat in my car, feet up in the passenger seat, sipping a coffee as I admired the view. A...

Kevin craved the binoculars, a 40th birthday gift for Father from Mother. For two weeks he fantasized about spying on the farmer who wore...

Janet wandered slowly down the street; she had an hour before she had to meet Mandy for lunch at Sushi Supreme. Her eyes roamed over the...

The ice house raised out of the blank desert canvas like a wart, larger and uglier than everything around it, a boil on the finger of...

Samantha is steadfast in her determination to tempt, as she holds a spoonful of peanut butter in front of Brutus’ face. Brutus looks at...

“You silly little boy.” Silvia laughed at Antonio as she taunted him into a rage. She had challenged him to prove that he was really the...

It is raining (though barely). The temperature is a cool and steady sixty-one degrees. It is early morning in a Chicago suburb. Birds...

TO JACKSONVILLE Peg-o-my-heart, you promised I could help feed the bass sluicing like bastards in your farm pond; that you’d let me...