Lizorna
I’d just finished screaming at my secretary. I might have made her cry. I didn’t know or care. She’d lost the call I’d been waiting for all day. She left my office with a quivering lower lip like I’d just killed her puppy. I scooted back a carefully laid paper tent on my twelve-foot imported […]
Melbourne
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The Song That Doesn’t Stop
The lyrics to the song came to me as soon as I opened the door to the loft, inspiration in an instant. The first was, “Billy!” then, “ No!” then, “Oh, God!” It was my song, those roller coaster off-the-rails screams, that woke up our neighbors. The second I opened that door, I knew. I […]
Dubai
Jordan
There’s walking and then there’s Petra walking. I think my feet are still inside my shoes, but I’m afraid to check. The site is all of the superlatives wrapped in miles of gorgeous carved ancient sandstone. It’s a movie set, only it’s real. My guide, Ali, repeated “Terry” like an overused comma in his running […]
Final Clothes
I had to get this one task just right. I had to. The autopsy took a week. I played out the gruesome things they were doing to him. I still do, sometimes. I had to choose his final clothing once Billy was released to the funeral home. I always told him that he had more […]
THE QUEEN OF THE BENCH
Her posture is as if she’s still got that finishing school textbook balancing on the top of her head and it’s not until you get up close that you see her regal headdress, as tall as Marge Simpson’s hair, is in tatters, the color of cream shaded with the soot of the subway. Every single […]