Daddy thinks history starts fresh every day, every minute, that time itself begins with the feelings he’s having right now. That’s how he keeps betraying us, why he roars at us with such conviction. W...
Who was wearing a very handsome
We came to the corner, waited for the light, and crossed. I had no idea where we were going. I said, I didn’t realize you were so depressed. I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more l...
The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.
THE TWINS WERE eighteen months old now, walking (and standing and staring and screaming and sitting) just like other children more or less their age, and Andy found herself increasingly preoccupied wi...
There were no toys under the bed--that wasn't why he liked it. Why he liked it was that there wasn't anything under the bed--no chickens, no Joey, no Eloise, no sheep, no "no"s. He could lie under the...
Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex.
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contem...
Rain or snow. Mama worried and Papa was impressed;
Poking around in this dump, as it would be
She looked out the window of her office, feeling that she had passed through a doorway that she had never realized was there.
Mary had nice clothes, too, ones she had worked hard for over the summer,
Dark, wet sides of the well dropped maybe
This is true, at the least, that no veil of beauty hides the evils from our sight.
Still others reflected on how quickly the food could be snatched from a man's table, or the child from a woman's breast, or the wife from a man's bedcloset, that no strength of grasp could hold these...
Upstairs, in the cupboard, he had a box of things he had saved as a boy and a young man. He hadn't looked into it in twenty years or more. Nothing fancy or valuable, but things that had meant somethin...
Eidetic memory. What else any of it meant to
When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I agreed in order to be polite, but in my heart I knew that those men were imposto...
They throw themselves on the waters of the world, and they know they will be borne up.
Ron Paul, who, as someone said, wouldn’t have regulated a sewer pipe running through his child’s playroom.