Calendar reminds me: it’s been 24 years since my resettlement. I need the annual reminder that life wasn’t always this. The anniversary must be quickly processed; Continue Reading ...
Hannah, we care about you and the memories you share here. We thought you’d like to look back on this photo of you from exactly five years ago today. ...
I know there is no escaping this, and I know that before the next dawn, this dagger will cut through either his neck or mine. Continue Reading The ...
In the end, perhaps it is these mementoes and relics, the ones that exist only to be bought and burnt up, that tell us the most about what we value. ...
In your mind, you are a girl…Outside your mind, you are a young man going on his first date with a girl. Continue Reading Male or Female
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. The didactic purpose of the frescos is clear from the strap-line at the base of the Allegory of Good Government, which begins “Turn your eyes to behold her, you ...
All gone. All quiet. A far distant grus grus then silence. He chews on, chews over his sense of estrangement, his speech now unconfident, self-conscious, swollen crumb to his tongue, ...
I can deal with the snoring. The problem is that we bought a house. Buying a sweater is hard enough Continue Reading Buyer’s Remorse
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I stubbed out my cigarette and wrapped my arms around my legs, chin resting on my knees. Lefty draped his arm across my shoulders and said, “You think it’ll always ...
With every cell of my body feeling like I don’t belong here any more and will never ever want to, I heard every graffiti letter, every foul corner, every turnstile ...
And, he shared all those stories, which I +++my heart and promised not to tell, unless 1) scientists cloned a goat, 2) Man landed on the Moon, 3) two guys ...
One beer down, but more drunk on the charming bookstore I’m sitting in, this stark difference between a world long gone (Lisbon in the 1930s) and a world very much ...
Our weed shop is located beside the local hospital. One might think that would be a good match since cannabis products promote health and healing too, but you can’t have ...
In Paris you do the sightseeing thing, you go up and down Notre Dame, up and down the Arc de Triumph and up and down the Champs-Élysées. Continue ...
This is the moment when I turn my head, and spy six pale, anxious looking women gathered around me. I frown at the first one who frowns back. Look again ...
So this is East Germany, 1972. We scramble for our passports, watching passengers exit under machine guns aimed at our train from atop nineteenth-century iron catwalks arching above the tracks. ...
I was sixteen and she was twenty, and she had dropped out of school six months before graduation. “It was time for me to go,” she would tell me. “I ...
It’s always one of two nightmares: I’m either trapped in a room with a many-faced man, or he’s chasing me into the street outside my childhood home. ...
Night had come, and she raised a glass to that dark island night and she felt her heart calm and her blood unfurl. Continue Reading Unfurl
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The cop climbs in the back seat and introduces himself, Naim. Like many Afghans he has just one name. Continue Reading Methods of Escape
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