Save My Life

A story.

“That night the fever started and later, in my delirium, I said over and over, I am dying. (Maybe you even start to die, and then something saves you. Perhaps it’s like flipping a coin or stepping off a high, unrailed porch when you’re first starting to walk, flinging the leg out into space [...]

Tangerines & Cigarettes

You know. Things happen. When I was nineteen I was in Galicia, the hard coastal northern tip of Spain over Portugal. Rocks claw out of the sea—the sea claws back at the rocks. I remember the senoras with their tight silver buns and blue kerchiefs, baskets in their arms—and the bread. They walked in flocks [...]