It is said no two fingerprints are alike… whorls, loops and arches of flesh that separate one person’s identity from another. I leave fingerprints everywhere. In the elevator, I press the doughy pads of my fingertips against the walls, the cool metal railing, leaving an oily smudge behind. In stores I gently massage sales counters […]

She doesn’t think about Max’s eyes, or the way his fingers felt wrapped in hers. She doesn’t think of how sunlight looked caught in the tangle of his wild hair, or the way his laughter could scramble up and down the length of her, ripple across her skin like a tickling wind. Sitting here now, […]

Hannah took a long lunch and drove through the falling snow towards home. The expressway was clear of traffic but as yet unsalted, and Hannah felt the car, every few moments, gliding just above the road. She ignored the static that had replaced Joan Baez on the radio. It was a song she adored, but […]

I wear strange outfits when there are no people around. I wear only normal outfits when there are some people around, unless there is something startlingly happening to me like sunshine, and makes me forget the way I am or what I look like in real life. This is happening more often these days on […]

You were a lover of views never one for things not meant to be seen, like the forgotten back lots inside dark city blocks. So I held the pen awhile, with that thought in my head, and marveled at the space around my signature, how light the lease papers looked with only one name holding […]