Don’t borrow trouble.
Cancer and lightning go where they want. So does political corruption.
But if Cholo Ramirez was indeed intended to embark on the Ghost Trail of his Indian ancestors, its entrance was not marked by cottonwood trees along a riverbank on a windswept green plain. The Ghost T...
But as John Steinbeck had said long ago, we had come to fear a man with a hole in his shoe.
But I was falling prey to that old self-serving notion that well-intended rhetoric can remove a stone bruise from the soul.
At some point in your life, you have to give up anger or it will destroy your spirit the way cancer destroys living tissue.
And I suppose that what I have learned is a lesson that the years, or self-concern, had begun to hide from me, namely, that the bravest and most loyal and loving people in the world seldom have heroic...
Albert never told anyone of what the guard did to him. But sometimes he smells the guard's stink in his sleep, a combination of chewing tobacco and hair oil and testosterone and dried sweat that had b...
A tanker truck appeared far down the wavy surface of the highway, headlights on, its weight and shimmering cylindrical shape and dedicated purpose so great and unrelenting that it seemed to move and j...
There are moments when we understand that the earth and the sky and the presences that may lie behind them are always with us.
Soldiers who return from foreign battlefields with a syndrome that survivors of the Great War called the thousand-yard stare.
Scullions
Profligacy
Past Louis Armstrong Park, a place no white person in his right mind enters either day or night,
Meretricious
Iniquitous.
He had kept encased in glass hanging from an
Fear is an irrational emotion that floats from object to object like a helium balloon that you touch with your fingertips.
Busthead
The sky was purple, streaked with fire, the palm trees like scorched tin cutouts against the sun. I woke at four in the morning and could not sleep again, my heart congealed with a sense of mortality...