Everything cracks around me. The ice, even just a few feet along the bank, crackles like it is being stepped...
Knock, knock. A crack. Tap. More cracks. Peel—an attempt, at least. I press the egg onto the table. The translucent...
Keith was sitting on his Adeline Street porch when Annie and I approached him one sunny Saturday in October of...
Outside the train window, the sun blurs out pink across industrial New England. Old factories and local marinas glow; people...
Every day since I arrived in Paris, I have gone to the same bookstore,the one next to the Panthéon. I’m...
My mother let me sit in the front seat of her car when I was far too young to sit...
The men in my ears clacked about The Iliad as I walked. I used to pause my podcasts and take...
It’s always raining in New Haven—a soft, loveless drizzle. I wander in a wide parabola around Cross Campus as water...
I’ve been crying in the L-Dub showers. This is where I came to mourn my first graded problem set, to...
At seventeen, I devoted myself to the pursuit of eroticism. Evolutionary imperatives necessitated a baseline sexual appetite, but I was...