He looks out of the caravan window. Filthy night. The hour is late; freezing cold bed sheets make sleep impossible. A relentless, suffocating winter and the weight of the snow draws the world down around him. Three sugars, he thinks. He strikes a match and lights the little gas stove to make his cup of […]

I’ve always loved the sea; the caress of waves, the scrunch of sand, the weightlessness in the water. Even as a little girl I’d tell all my secrets to it—my problems, my worries— whispering them into the blue where they’d disappear. Today, I walk barefoot, holding my jandals in one hand as the tide rubs […]

It was hard to miss the large wooden O mounted by the door of the bungalow. O as in obedient, onerous, obscene. The stain along the bottom of the letter conjured an image of ragged teeth and a tongue. Gray and black rotting leaves filled one side of the porch. The window screens were rusted […]

He was on the way up, the poor lad. Up from an infancy of neglect, out of the fistfights of his adolescence, the mind-addled haze of his twenties. Now, early thirties, he was peeling away from that self-sabotaging behavior, proudly clean of booze, weed, fast food. He was working out. He was healthy. He had, […]