Nicole spins, smiles, bites Mark’s lip, and coaxes him from the circle. They make slow, cautious love on the pile…

Truth or dare: Who did you lose your virginity to? That sorta-kinda-boyfriend I had the summer before college. We both…

When the boy’s mother told him to at last get dressed for the pool party, what he heard was: son,…

Find a pool of water. It should be still. Maybe in a hidden grove somewhere. Remember a person or thing…

During the day I paint numbers on watch dials so they shine luminescent, but when the factory bell rings, I…

They spoke with such thick accents that she sometimes couldn’t understand them, her father’s distant parents, but she clearly heard…

On our first date, our only date, I lied to you when you asked me about my biggest fear. Sinkholes,…

Our tiny mountain town became a city, at least for the day. Even I had a sign on the front…

Next to me at the intersection stands a young boy, hands in jacket pockets, hair the brown of thebrittle leaves…

Mother Black Bear sits on her haunches under the heavy limbs of the crabapple tree in the backyard. She rubs…