Sideways Branches
1986
I’m in preschool at a small Baptist church in southern California, and my teacher looks just like me. Mrs. Fujimoto is Japanese, and...
Home
When you say home, do you mean rain-shadow desert? Arid orange valleys threaded with shallow streams, sand packed hard as concrete, encircled with mountains,...
Ghost Theories
New research suggests ghostsare the body’s sensitivityto magnetic fields—the body feels theseas a presence, a hovering.Or, that ghosts arethe barely perceptible humof faraway...
White Witch as a Young Girl
Thick like molasses—Watch outfor your weight chorusthe church ladies, little girlsnot allowed delightfrom Turkey or elsewhere.Don’t brown in the...
Terminal
Actually, it’s good to be quiet, to
be a waiting stone, while that word
caroms around the room.
Does he mishear it
as Eternal? The one time I...
