1. WHEN I ASKED FOR his name, he said, “Dog.”       It surprised me. Did he call me dog? I figured I caught…

THE TITLE OF THIS short memoir, Querencia, is a bullfighting term that describes the spot in the ring where…

___ 感：/gan/ perception takes place           when an ax breaks something on the heart 闷: /men/ depressed wh…

___ I tried to make a meal out of the rechauffe my life became so I. I picked a pot whose lid trembles with…

IT HAD BEEN HER idea to visit the sea one last time. They travelled in punishing silence, cocooned in grief…

_____ I used to play that old piano in your living room the one that was two hundred years old and had abou…

—for the weekly writing challenge, with the prompt,  'fight at a funeral'.   The ambience of the fu…

___ To my mother, a prayer is a brittle thing  that morphs into splinters when it crashes into a faithless hear…

Everyone is a monster: the difference between me and you is how much our hands can close around. And whethe…

THE SPARE PARTS DUMP It’s a charnel house of metal trolled by do-it-yourself mechanics;      a Mustang enthusia…

______________ the entire morning  was held in a basket,  like the kind that would have been  woven by my Aunt …