Ed grabbed his keys and walked into his kitchen. His wife sat at the small table, catalogues spread before her, smoking a Winston Light....

My aunt, superstitious to no end, discovered to her horror that together with the invited guests we would be exactly thirteen at the...

It was a box, and who had three thousand bucks to spend on a box? Her daddy would have said, just wrap me in a bedsheet and drop me in a...

‘Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence. ~ ‘The Idiot’ by Fyodor...

Emma had been moving in since we started dating six months ago, one little object at a time—a chartreuse toothbrush sprouting out of the...

I just learned more about this composer, Schubert, yesterday.  I was trying a new song in my lesson, and my cello teacher filled me in...

We were hitting our stride this Saturday morning, bodily rhythms in sync. Then came the first thud: a strange knocking from somewhere at...

‘Mummy, look, a ghost did a painting.’ Maddie looks. On the kitchen table is a painting of a bucolic country scene. There is a farmhouse...

Boiled down, she was a writer and I wasn’t. “This story, it’s terrible,” she said. “You’re writing fiction, for Christ’s sake.” That hurt...

Let me tell you about the time I was eight and made my big screen debut in Cannibal Family. I played Billy Barker, the youngest son of a...

The man’s name was Ray; and he struggled, alone, through the drifting waves of coarse white sand. The desert was anonymous—the rocks and...

John Stanley had a tear-off monthly calendar, the kind auto-repair shops give away. He’d taken off the cardboard backing or it had torn...

My girlfriend, Jolene, took it and ran with it, but I figured I should let her know. Too bad an argument ensued and it ended abruptly....

There was nowhere for me to go when I aged out of Bell County Baptist Children's Home, but I didn't care. They gave me a list of job...