1 Jim Timmons had come from Vermont to Deer Falls, the little resort town on the edge of the Adirondacks, not for the scenery or skiing—...

There is a name for the man with a hundred hands who lies under your bed, the one with fifty mucked-up faces for the fifty bad-luck...

Pharaoh’s magicians, you apprehend too late that technical slights and sleights-of-hand resolve nothing; the techne you seek, the immense...

It’s in a group rehab session when he first speaks about it. Your mama did what? one of the guys asks. She took a knife to her hand,...

On the road to Chiavenna, Alison, who’d been watching the Alps from the back seat through a small child’s handprint on the window, had to

Devon Min was one of the New Troy Nobles’ more popular superheroes.

The judge sent me upstate for sixteen months for something that wasn’t really my fault.

while I stay in my room  at the Super 8 under the weather 

I am writing to you now without putting my right hand on my chest, quivering from cold and grief. I don’t cry any more, Mom, just hide...

To the anatomists, for the doctors to dissect? 

There’s the flannel shirted man selling  ivory next to the hotdog stand.

CO Serena could not bend iron with her eyes, but even before her shift, when she switched to “God’s Word” AM radio

In the Sprungs, I had grown completely comfortable with my job.

Brown leaf in a brown cup.  Hickory or elm. It’s been  so long I’m unsure. 

To the anatomists, for the doctors to dissect? To the Royal Academy, for the artists to draw? They all need a corpse. And he is surely...

At Rush City Correctional Facility you find your rush where you can.

Think positive says  the janitor  as it begins as a thread 

Dear David Evans III, of Newton, Mass.,  Your Nanna sent you alligators in full color

Goes first though once airborne  your reflection changes shape

I learned when I was an infant,  the lilac swayed just once.