We had signed up for the program because my wife wanted it. And it was easier to go along with her than to admit my own desires, even to...

(Iowa City 1994) She’d had on khaki shorts, nothing crazy. Trees in the breeze . . . And I remember little to nothing else about my...

I watched a fly join several others on an adhesive strip. I wondered how long it would take him to die. A day or two at least. I also...

Monday Trina, Apartment 311 Wake up into a whole new week. The news turns on. Something about tensions overseas. I shower to try to...

My dreamiest day of the week is Tuesday. I’ve tracked nearly every dream I’ve had since I was twelve years old and for the past six or so...

What I'm about to reveal is the stuff they tell you to keep to yourself or share with a group or save for a professional. It's of blood and

Mummy Adanma had just gotten back from another day of work at the farm, she lived in a village called Nsugbe in Onitsha along with her...

I crawled out of bed and went down to the gas station to buy a newspaper and a coffee. Then I flipped through the help wanted ads. Sell...

According to my grandmother, not finishing my meal would bring rain, but it never did. Until last week. Last week we had potato soup, I...

Later that same week, a muggy week in September, between all the black holes, I remember watching over my mother’s shoulder, as she...