The Lifeline operator refuses to take my call when she realises I’m already dead. I tell her my name, and…

We’re having a late lunch, five women, widows now, who have been meeting once a month for forty years. “Dress-up…

On the line, I run a double-forklift. It’s a lot like a regular forklift, but the forks both spread out…

I stand at the kitchen window, calculating the parabolic arc a murmuration of birds makes against the ridge of conifers.…

It was supposed to be chess club, but instead, it was Gambler’s Anonymous, and that’s what you get in Moline.…

In science class, Margot teaches them about the magic of snow. “Evaporation, condensation, deposition,” she says. On the whiteboard she…

When I go in, the sink is bursting with unwashed dishes coated with moldy leftover scraps, half-filled glasses, cups that…

Marvin’s tumor is the size of an unshelled walnut. His doctor, who wears bile-colored Crocs, has told Marvin and Marvin’s…

The shades are pulled down by Mick before the summer sunsets. Mick is a regular: he spends every day, open…

Kerry found a hundred-dollar bill at the gas station near pump three. It was covered in oil. She carried the…