To get the eel bait, we had to take an old rowboat out to a motorboat. I had never gone fishing before. I have been afraid of eels ever since, […]
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To get the eel bait, we had to take an old rowboat out to a motorboat. I had never gone fishing before. I have been afraid of eels ever since, […]
After I got kicked out of camp, my mom wanted me to learn the ways of Man, so I moved in with my dad.
All she had were the words without the substance of memory.
In Soviet Ukraine, where chess mattered, Igor Borisovich’s difficult personality was forgiven as a side effect of his chess master genius.
My mother speaks for me. I nod along as she recounts the twisted history of my illness, too weak to correct her when she trips over a detail.
I. Dad, in his white undershirt and gym shorts, asked to speak with me one night. I didn’t think much of this; he often wished me goodnight with an “I […]
We’d been dating for only a short month and already cohabitating on Seneca Street in Tucson, when Leslie, my future wife, invited me to her family’s home, 120 miles north […]
In the old Korea image, the heart appeared raised, not engraved. Plump, like a real heart.
My brother has never been my enemy. But I worry about what he could be driven to do under the pretenses of defending what he loves.
I want my mom. I do. I may be thirty-five years old—too old for wanting mothers—but I’m also thirty-five weeks pregnant. And I’m scared, I guess.
She looks away in horror and I re-sheet myself. I don’t blame her. I’m disgusted too.
When she was dying, it was easy to see her spoons dripping off her remote controlled hospital bed.
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