I’m no criminal. I’m in pain. So I can see how my recent downfall might be seen as just another junky’s story, but here’s the thing: I’ve...

God bless you Mr. Rosewater For all that you have done. While we pore through SQL, You’re absolved of your sins. Tabbing through endless...

She smiled and four years fell away from her face. Laughter and tears and memories of mine and hers Vanished in a fraction of a second,...

A sun-dappled spiral of concrete serves as a drainage ditch in a more secluded and flood-prone part of the University’s arboretum. In a...

It’s early on a Tuesday afternoon and two friends are fighting over a soccer ball on an oversized pool table which uses other soccer...

Gated reverb finger snaps and sizzling high-hat sixteenth-notes Choral bass drum thump on the downbeat Punctuates the sawing organ swells...

It was a tearful afternoon when Ma died and I promised to straighten myself out. It was a whole lot to promise and if I hadn’t been high...

Mary Mercator could remember the very exact moment at which she first fell in love. She was in senior English class, it was about 1:13...

And how long have I trudged through the endless existential abyss that is my sole remaining purpose? All else is wasted, my body, my...

I’m just too glad that Delia and the kids weren’t at the house when that girl came by last night. She was just too much trouble and it...

One crisp and cool fall day, Gregory took the day off from work and decided to take a walk in the park catty-corner from his apartment...

The Atlantic magazine published an article titled "Step Aside, Joe Biden" and I have responded to it here: Mister Cohen, While I agree...

It was a misty cloudy day in Victoria, Canada. My sister, Rory, and I had breakfast and then we walked to the Royal British Columbian...

The river flows ten-thousand years, And yet its name never changes. Its course whips wildly on the landscape, Yet you can stand on its...

Oh how clever. How clever you are. Bedecked in your ersatz splendor, You know you've really gotten far, Soaked in simple syphilitic...

All bright times pass. Friends become strangers Laughter fades to awkward smiles. And why are you so awkward around me? Have I changed...

It doesn't matter whether You're a communist Or a capitalist Or a unilateral naturalist. It doesn't matter if you're a monarchist,...

But isn't it lovely to declare your love for the whole world? Keep loving the world over! Every moment, every word, every kiss, every...

Hey there, Jimmy! You've got it all figured out! You got a job down at the corner store, Enough money to rent out the casita In your...

We needed an awful big house to hide ourselves from each other And that’s what we got in November of two-thousand-and-three. Even my...