Happiness is fine, from twelve to twenty-nine. But thinning haired and thirty, you crave the sure and sturdy. You seek a house and wife and benefits—a life, built to your …

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Picture this tryst: Gogol’s nose and Kafka’s roach. When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself in bed with— a nose! Their love all clicks and …

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His wooden rosary, a broken abacus, hangs on the bedroom wall, draped around a framed, colourized picture of a little boy kneeling bedside. Palms pressed, fingers steepled, whispering the saints’ …

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The females of my family extolled the virtues of our Queen, her cautious charm, the opera glove that sheathed the guiding arm. For this was ours, the Englishwoman’s mould. But …

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The completely to me magical screen sits in the middle of this black desk, the one I put together with such trouble, following the instructions, muttering its nonsensical Swedish name …

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I pulled this out to hang on a wall in my room. But the humidity in the drawer has damaged it. I won’t frame this photograph. I should have protected …

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A common year beginning in my memory. By March, in dark pools beneath Lake Erie And in the zinc mines of Kamioka Mining & Smelting Company, Gifu Prefecture, Neutrinos from …

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Blinking in the half-light, almost bright after the school’s dim corridors, we’d pass the line of poplars, tall black sentries at the outer limits of the play field. Street lights …

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…some skeletal remains initially thought to be single bodies were actually two people fused together by searing temperatures. —cnn, February 12, 2009 There are always bodies to discover at each …

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