You stagger down the street. You see a butterfly, flitting from flower to stupid flower. You asked for a sign and here one is...

“Nestor, please don’t take that tone with me. I was only trying to help.” Rhea perched herself on the edge of a wicker chair in..."

I shaved my legs. I kept the water on-- a luxury, of course, but that morning, I tolerated little, drought, or otherwise. Let Eliot measure...

Velda just needed to get to the store. Buy something. Anything. A Twix bar. A tuba. A taxidermy chinchilla. She craved the hit...

“Dad, did you know 267,624,000 people already sat in these seats? Can I have a Dodger Dog?” 

A man in a monocle rushed in carrying a small aquarium. He wore....

Fingers tickle keys. Fingers tickle me. A piano teacher, bearded and blood shot. A piano bench, a shopworn family heirloom...

 Marge had never been to a senior singles party. “Seventy-six years, and I’ve never even been on a boat!” she told everyone at the Catalina Express...

Eldon Belafonte’s blue eyes could get him anything. They sparkled like Sinatra’s. At least they used to. In high school, they made him...

Not every day that a big ol’ white rabbit comes tappity-tapping 

on your door. 

It wasn’t Easter, 

and I sure didn’t have...