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The Trade-Off

Strange then, strange now, that language wants to be alone with me.

Things That Don’t Keep a Lightning Bug Alive

Where my mom was wasn’t never far from the Myrtle Beach Days Inn.

This Is Not a Christmas Story

There was a shout, then a shot fired. I pressed the shutter again and again.

Three Poems

My brother stealing all the lightbulbs, my parents live without light.

Ticket to Ride

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Transfer of Power

Everyone has something lodged and jittering inside them.

Twigs

Neither fame nor wealth could provide consolation for life’s brevity.

Type A

My first true love was Underwood, my mother’s typewriter.

When I Knew Stephen Crane

If he could not evade a serious question by a joke, he bolted.

Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady at One Hundred

This is a novel that contains more than its actuarial share of falls.