Paradise is semi-empty they should have lowered the entrance price or took more reservations online while the manager— picture a cardiac arrest—is sweating and moshing kids once children have sensed the panic scream or silently leave the pool the chef… Continue Reading
a cup on its side at the edge of a lake in Germany in the late evening one summer as the sun begins to sink below the line of trees to the West and you are sitting on a park… Continue Reading
When attempting to create something, one must be ready for anything. In fact, the creative mind should always be at work, alert to any and all details present at all times. While I had a project and an idea in… Continue Reading
“… what do you live for?” This question keeps appearing in the entertainment I consume. I’ve considered the question myself, but it’s the voices of other people’s fictional characters that have been asking it of me lately, and they usually… Continue Reading
She says to me, I damn you. Bringing me some place like this. She wipes away some tears, breathes in deep through coughing, smiles with Her thin lips. A smile. Thank god. I am out of my depth with this… Continue Reading
1. The author, Clive Gresswell, screwed up the piece of paper he had been writing on and tossed it into the bin. He was dissatisfied with the characters who had not been behaving themselves and doing what he wanted… Continue Reading
I think about your life behind an e-mail address that may no longer be valid. I don’t even know if this will be read by you. The only way I can write is if I picture you reading this in… Continue Reading
“That year Lizzie’s kid sister kept a list of things that were funny when they happened to other people: tarring and feathering, Peeping Toms, mad cow disease.” Like the list that opens Einstein’s Beach House, the synopses of the eight… Continue Reading
Early February, 2014. The weather’s still cold and ambivalent. I’m in a basement at York University, staring out the window at snow and people hunched against the wind. A seminar of past graduates of the English programs has just ended,… Continue Reading
Jesus Lizard Attempting to catch me before I fall into sleep, you query “Did you know the basilisk lizard can run on water like Jesus?” Flickering consciousness, I sink the conversation with silence before it sets sail in this sea… Continue Reading