Weightless
I walked through the sporting goods store, filled now mostly with clothes rather than sporting goods, and made my way...
House
A Norse Nation
"America is a Christian nation," she said to me. "Haven't you seen the words 'In God We Trust' on the...
Match Unmatched
We used to meet at the coffee shop down at the corner to play chess. That was before the pandemic...
The Ladder From Sea To Sky
I sat on the igneous stones that had been thrown at the water to make a port from a rough...
Seeding
The pharmacy, as an act of community service during the pandemic, discounted the Ferry-Morse packets of vegetable seed down to...
Foaming
In those days, we had nowhere to go. The entire world had closed down - just in case. So, we...
Open Ground
Ordinarily, it's covered up with a carpet of green, a lawn that we fastidiously maintain. Underneath it all, however, there's...
Windblown
Under the lilac, whose plum-colored blooms had long since fallen away, the grass fell long in a single direction, set...
Shifting
To be in the city and not seemed the ocean would have been an insult, so I rose before dawn...
Unseated
It had been a home but was now a small hotel serving as a flophouse for foreigners visiting the city...
