When Darla got down to three hundred and sixty pounds, her friend Mildred threw her a party. They were the only ones there and split a huge birthday cake. The next morning, Darla had weighed herself. Three hundred and sixty-five pounds, the scale had said. “Shit,” she’d replied. # She sits on a […]
The Proper Way to Live
A pressing, distressing narrative this is not. It’s 1570 Spain, and I’m a missionary building a church in the middle of the forest. It’s 1960 southern United States and I’m a policeman shining the beam on a tree, and its leaves, as the sky shines bright with stars and people sing in the distance, […]
The Orange Shirt of Crazy
“What are you going to do today, Lloyd?” It’s my wife on the phone. I hang up. Downstairs, I burn the toast, and then I burn the toaster. The car slips from the driveway into the tundra. At the end of the street, John from 4684 waves my window down. “What are you going to […]