GASTROPODA

The stars, when they fall, fall like rain, like broken-wing birds, like falling stars. The sky goes velvet black in their absence. They...

After a day's hike, you arrive and head straight for the center, where the tiny star sits crying in a dimly lit heap. All of the other...

When Earth wakes up thirsty and reaches for the nightstand and can't find the glass she always sets out the night before, she'll think,...

The teacup rattles on its saucer as it crosses the space between wife and husband. The wife raises her eyebrows for a refill, then...

With a shopping basket in his hand, he stands there. He took the bus. Others around him came riding upon genetically engineered Great...

When one of them was 8 and the other 9, they drew horses on the printer paper one of the dads brought home from his office. Green horses,...

You say you can’t bear to live with my parents anymore. I love them, but I choose you, so we move out of their warm basement and into an...

Follow the irrigation ditch beyond the railway line and you come to a thicket of willow trees. Between them the hem of a chain-link fence...

In 1905, Mina Benson Hubbard led a successful expedition across the Labrador wilderness, then published A Woman’s Way Through Unknown...

They were heart-shaped lollipops stuck to your jumper, black raindrops splattered up your calves and across the hem of your Sunday best...

I've been watching Dad suffer all weekend in Yellowstone National Park. He hasn't been the same since the divorce. Our campsite is on a...

When the gorilla arrived at the front door the last thing Edna expected was this desperate hollow feeling inside. She lived day to day...

We have come here to walk, convinced that a change of scenery and aimless miles are the answer, or the beginnings of an answer. An...

The old neighbor lady passed on a hot Monday morning. No one found her until the Mobile Meals breakfast and lunch stacked up against the...

Caught off guard by the question, I blurt the first thing that comes to mind: that I believe the twelve-to-six curveball is by far the...

It was a cool gray morning when I arrived at The Facility. They were expecting me–I’d booked The Experience yesterday. “Mr. Backus,...

She spends her weeks in the cubicle, passing documents up and down the food chain. Men in suits roll past her like waves in the ocean,...

Aunt Betty and Uncle Eddy visit me in the maternity ward four days before Christmas. My mother is going home to the six kids she can’t...

On my fifth birthday, Mom made a Winnie the Pooh cake with chocolate frosting. Thanksgiving, she made a Filipino Sans Rival cake with...

In the morning, I reach out my feelers for you but there are only the folds of sheets and blankets, the softness of your pillow...