fleeting

He spits over the side of the tower and pats the handle of the revolver in his belt.

There won’t be any more taunts. They call him ‘Veg’ but from now on they will call him ‘Meat’.

If you travel far inside the one you love, into the distant continents that lie beyond the breakwaters and the ports of call

Six months before she died – it must have been just before she was diagnosed – I saw her, but she didn’t see me.

I remove her hands at the wrist without permission because she never touches my dick.

Her teacher asked them to take a piece of paper and write a nice word describing, one by one, everybody in the class.

These are the things I didn’t tell you. 

The naming of the house RENFIELD is an unambiguous reference to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, in which Renfield is a minor character.

These were rough, rivetless, piecework men. I stood there in my pajama pants

Somewhere over Greenland the plane hit turbulence again.

One fear of mine: My children resenting these days in the future.

We arrive at the sentencing early, even before the news trucks, to a team of policemen