KEEPING THE WINDOW CLOSED The last time I opened the window the moon got in, streaked through between the sill and sash and plunged into the mirror. It stuck there.…
Magic Realism
Messiah in America: Act IV
Scene One At the side show. It’s still early, there are no spectators yet. Charlie is helping Zip into his outfit. Zip: Can it really be? Has Menachem’s gang really…
After Hours in Bohemia
Early Morning in July The morning to be came up Monday, and there you were,huddled between your shouldersover coffee. The toast was of the consistencyof dried steel wool. I smelled…
The Night Parade
The noises woke me up a little past midnight. I lay in bed for at least an hour after that, staring at the ceiling and tossing around underneath the covers.…
Points of Entry
The oldest god was MAAA. Though he didn’t think with words like ‘god’ yet. Or spirits, or entities, or monsters, or angels or demons. MAAA was primal, elemental. MAAA was…
The Sensitive
In those early days of Lily Dale, long before it was even known as Lily Dale or, before that, City of Light, our freethinking earthly compatriots were fond of organizing…
