A cowboy in black walks into a café. Like that joke, this story has no punchline. This man in black walks into my café. He’s an older ma...

A girl asked if I was using the other seat at my table and when I motioned "No" she sat down.That never happens to me. She was you...

A month or two ago, I spent an afternoon drifting from small bookstore to bookstore looking to do something about the gender disparity among...

How do people draw from memory?  I’m thinking about Olivia right now — after a couple of days with her, her face is more clear to me than ...

A year ago, I wanted real magic to exist in the world. That was all it was: one wish from the bottom of my heart filtered through the intell...

My partner is in Oregon. I have not seen her in six days and I will not see her returned home for six more. The era — and it is an era — has...

I can't channel this wretched knot of paranoid energy I have today into composition, so let me just share this unrelated(actually, now I...

I failed a test of character today. I was crossing the street next to a shrunken old Uke woman (at a crosswalk--Let's not be savage...

For a moment at the end of my train ride home, it seemed to me that the beauteous young woman with the messy, jet black hair and the ruby re...

Quite some time ago, I made out with this flirty little human from Poland. I was too drunk to be too damn charming; I kept asking what she d...