Category: Fiction

Uma Lembrança

A chronicle of a drink by the seaside, foretold.

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The Story about a War and Some Other Things

“Anyway, I’ve heard stories are supposed to have morals. I don’t know if this is much of a story, really, but I’ll give it a moral anyhow.”

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Antibody

“Disconnecting from my warring fingers, I hang in a space that belongs to neither fingers nor eyes.”

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Arm and a Leg

My little sister has this disease that makes all of her limbs fall off.

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On Memories, the Olfactory, and Untimely Death

Minutes before death, a writer reflects upon his life in smells.

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Eugene

“I don’t think he would have been a loving father. He didn’t have it in him. I think he would have been too scared.”

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The Embargo

When I was fifteen, when my hair was growing down past my collar and my face was fixed into a jaded smirk, Mom and Dad decided it was time to get out. Out of the city; out of sinful, glorious … Read More

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Manifest Destiny

The best choice Mitt Romney ever made.

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Ginger

Neuroses can only get you so far.

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Ice Cream for Two

“I remember thinking, wow, isn’t this so picturesque, isn’t this so magnificent, isn’t this so exquisite.”

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Bailey’s Pool World: Where America Swims

Come on down to Bailey’s Pool World, where the Bailey’s family has everything you need to meet all your pool satisfaction needs!

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Best Picture

They screened Oscar pictures in the smallest, oldest theater with its carved wooden balcony, velvet curtains, a stage pockmarked by dancers’ feet.

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