Fire in the Hole

Me: I’ve sent this reviewer several pleas and still have gotten no response. His review is very late. What do you want to do? Him: Send ano...

Last night I had a curious dream I’m going to try to bang out before I have to leave this seat. I was on a bus, a public bus, I suppose, but...

The other side of the world returned me plagued by post-nasal drip and an elderly hack in my throat. Almost two weeks ago I boarded a plane ...

Some day I will snap and tell all the secrets and behind-the-backs I’ve been told, thereby bloody-facing the melodrama that gets fabricated ...

Stupid tired is the day, in which sense I am the day. Here is a fantasy I keep having on my way to the bathroom here at the hospital—but fir...

Never imagined I’d find myself watching boxing on TV in a room full of Germans. Being in the presence of multilingual, even bilingual, peopl...

Earlier a visual memory came to me: when I was a little girl, at the grocery store with my mom, I wandered away. She looked up and down aisl...