At the time, it seemed like a great idea and really cheap when you work out interest rates on a brand new partner every 325 Earth days,...

In child terms: share candy. Step in front of no one. When a whine or sob bubbles up in the throat, swallow hard . Do not call attention....

Sometimes, Morgan thinks about the movie American Beauty . Not necessarily about the movie, and definitely not Kevin Spacey, but about...

Sometimes Billy is an Elephant. Sometimes not. When Billy is an elephant, he is trunk and tusk and floppy ears, and he never forgets that...

“I don’t get it,” she said, and shot him a puzzled look as she dropped the notebook between them on the sofa. It was his notebook. His...

Bright morning light streamed through the bedroom window, waking Ben from his dream. Sitting up, he rubbed his toes in the plush Berber...

I hunt through the soft cheeses for a chunk of Roquefort. Cheese shouldn't be the focus—not French cheese, not at Whole Foods—the...

Standing on the front porch is a little bright-eyed wren of a woman with a nimbus of untamed white curls; she’s wearing a black dress...

My daughter – your Wham-bam!  granddaughter – has become an almost-stranger with her Bif-boom! attitudes and Kerpow! moods . The distance...

I know you watched us. How could you not? Your damn porch light was like a spotlight that caught my skin in the strapless bikini I...

Frank Furtson  8:29 AM @channel  Good morning and Happy Friday to all of you fellow Boinkers! Hope your week’s been a good one.  You...

Even though the music was loud in the gym I could hear her clearly; she was talking about the honeymoon and mentioned going to...

A skull-shaped cloud floated past the day he crashed into my life. Into the window, to be precise—thwack! And there he was, lying still....

If I listen closely, I can sometimes pick out the high-pitched whiz that grand pianos and Acme anvils make when they fall from the sky....

When we took the Uber home from the cemetery this afternoon, I thought of that holiday we had in Lisbon with you and Mum. We were sitting...

The crayons are hard to write with. They catch and drag on the walls. I want the red crayon, red, but it keeps breaking and my hand hurts...

Remember Charlie Bischman? Ponytail science geek, used to watch us from the bleachers? Well, Stacie, guess who drunk-dialed me in August?...

Tulips on Mars I. Closing Me and Kiefer were closing the shop when Bossman called to say we better clean up extra good since Aero Puffs...

You wake to your husband’s fingernails digging into your shoulder blade. Swallow a wince as Jimmy squeezes the skin on your back. He...

I knew my father was in the hospital for a long time, and I knew we visited, but I didn’t remember any of it. I didn’t remember the...