When we reached the top of the hill we saw an ascetic in simple robes meditating.
When we reached the top of the hill we saw an ascetic in simple robes meditating.
“No, I don’t need a wheelchair,” I say, trying to assert my autonomy, but then a nurse sees me take a shortened step — a near-miss trip.
One moment I was doing stock and the next I locked myself in one of the bathrooms.
He doesn’t see me, the dog walker. Not yet.
After four months of no contact I spotted him in a bar.
I was on bus in Yosemite. The bus driver told us the funniest questions he’d been asked.
My brother and I are giving my dad a shower. It’s a literal shitty mess.
We left in a cab.
Walking along Fifth wondering if I’ll see Warhol on the street again.
The door bursts open. Their voices fight for space on the air waves that carry them.
The department store Tannoy startled me. “Attention shoppers, A&S closes in five minutes.”
She flung her bag in the backseat, removed her stethoscope from her neck, and placed it on the passenger seat.
Just when I’m drinking, studying for a test, finishing the test.
Most doctors do not have to give their sons this warning: When you get pulled over by the police, keep your hands on the steering wheel.
I pick up the seven cans the dogs have licked and put them in the recycling.
I realize you are the King the minute you enter the classroom.
Colossus was a lowland gorilla I studied for a college internship, recording his behaviors.
We've locked ourselves in the band room closet because a kid brought a gun to school.
I hear my mom howling over Patsy Cline’s croon.
I am eleven, home alone, and every creak of the floor and tat-tat-tat of the radiator sends a jolt of fear through my body.