"It's a product of getting old," he said as he stretched his arm out. "Things start to hurt for no reason." He looked at his son and said, "Once you r..
Carl was deaf. The fire alarm in his house made no sound; a light would power on to tell him when there was danger. He thought about how if he was sle..
"Dad's dead. I'm sorry," my brother's voice turned into a whisper. "Dad's dead. He's f****n' dead." He said the word so many times he could have been ..
He imagined if he was going to be depressed it would be more interesting. He just laid on the couch eating cereal and watching episodes of The Honeymo..
He talked about how he would go into the store with a pocket full of coupons. How he couldn't leave until he had used them all. A shopping cart full o..
Chang was the new kid at school that his mother made him invite over. Devin didn'ttrust him at all. He couldn't quite place his finger on it, but he k..
My eyes were bloodshot going on a week. They felt heavy and they burned; like someone was putting out cigarettes on the back of them. I was scared at ..
I would sit Indian-style on the ground as my mother pulled the clothes out of the dryer. She would ask me about my day despite the fact I wasn't yet o..
The Elmer's glue she applied to the blue piece of paper looked like God placing a cloud in the sky. It looked like that day you told me you loved me. ..