There had been pain, a tightness in his chest, but the sense of urgency was what Bill remembered. They were at the tulip festival and he...

I didn’t really know Ronnie. From time to time I’d see him at a large gathering -- a birthday of our mutual friend Jake, say -- and we’d...

He stood alone on the quiet street with his back to the rising sun only just now reaching out beyond the cusp of the sea, ghostly blues...

Louie Wubnik and I met during our senior year at the Bronx High School of Science. We had both just gotten our acceptances from Columbia...

When Colin arrived at the meeting place Tuesday night he found a group of about twenty people clustered around a light pole. They all...

He waved himself off the stage though the applause hadn’t subsided any. There would be another hour signing autographs – a change made...

Dreary and dull is late autumn in New England. In cold billows and gusts of wind, winter arrives ahead of its official entrance, in...

That November was a doozy. Ice, snow, cold. Dad was on the road non-stop, zig-zagging across the south, studying golf courses. He was...

Tonight, I have the perfect venue to show off a new drop-dead gorgeous me – my sister-in-law’s brother’s wedding party. The happy couple...

“Right then,” Father announced at breakfast about a week after mother and I returned with the new baby. “The hay’s ready to bring in and...

“Where are you sitting today?” Kathy asked her son. She already knew the answer though; the discussion was had before the tutor arrived....

Young William sat on the lowest concrete step going up to his house. He had a corroded iron rod in his hands, and just then was scrawling...

We hired the cleaning girl on Monday. By Thursday we wanted to fire her. She hadn’t stolen anything. But we just didn’t want her around...

Balthuzar al-Muhammed tried to lock with the icy blue eyes of the interrogator. But the man, who had never introduced himself, looked...

“Just saw a UFO,” I told her. I lay in bed with my cell phone pressed to my ear, my eyes full of dazzle, brain running its pragmatic...

The pickup was loaded with furniture which he planned to sell in town. He drove slowly down the highway so the canvas tarp wouldn’t...

“To look at the river now,” I said. “Makes me forget it was a dry river bottom…. We used to run circles in.” Brett and I stood on the...

Red dust coated the top sides of the leaves of the maize and pigeon pea plants that lined the two miles of dirt road leading to the...

Sixteen miles. Broken up, strategized, it had seemed utterly doable: two miles out and two miles back in each direction. Quantifying it....

I don’t look more disgusting or smell any worse, not to my knowledge, but all of a sudden on October 23rd I, Stewie Marx, am re-named El...