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The Horse

Luther always had his eye on the back fence, as if he was like an animal.

The Horse Dealer’s Daughter

So long as there was money, the girl felt established, and brutally proud.

The Hot Country

El Presidente was no longer in a mood to see the American press.

The Importance of Doing Nothing

I can already feel the stone’s resistance as I work the first pass.

The Istafahan Bowl

The dark creatures are still, yet they give life to the whole mountain.

The Jockey

His hands stiffened so that the fingers curled inward like gray claws.

The Lady’s Murder

The Landfill

The interrogator was both man and deity, prophet and god.

The Lapedo Child

The blood had been soaked up in sawdust—“this is hell.”

The Last Artist in New York

Living as the last artist in Manhattan: it’s the ultimate test of commitment.

The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 1

Even if he lost her he would never disparage her, never not love her.

The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 2

Now, with new orders to carry out, he’d been restored to factory settings.

The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 3

Clark and Robertson got a reset, and Tuyen would get a baby. But Mikey?

The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 4

L’chaim. To lives both bygone and ongoing, and to the truths I choose to believe.

The Last Language

I think you might have turned into a novelist, if we’d been allowed to go on.

The Letters

The letter both pleased and disturbed her. Why did he get in touch?

The Little Weaver of Duleek Gate

It was up airly and down late with him, and the loom never standin’ still.

The Lusitania

A coldness bumped a last kiss upon my cheek, a good-bye kiss sliding across.

The Making of a Writer

The Making of a Writer

Write simple sentences. Report. Don’t moralize. No pretensions.

The Man and the Snake

The eyes looked into his own with a meaning, a malign significance.

The Mines at Potosí, Bolivia

He handed us sticks of dynamite, rolled in wax paper like taffy.

The Monolith

Jane’s made it clear, this Renuka might not even become a doctor.

The Musician

She accused her husband with great drama of having destroyed her life.

The News from Hell

The stupider the president the more power you arrange for him.

The Nightcrawler

He only told the world what the world wanted to hear from a guy who graduated from Harvard.

The Oil Sheikh

Six other guests smoked Marlboro Lights, and ashtrays filled up.

The Orangutan

Sneaking was one thing, entering a bar with a someone else’s ID another.

The Painted Veil

Kitty reached the age of twenty-five and was still unmarried.

The Palace of Illusions

I managed to talk sensible Alice into a little pink outfit and high heels.