Dispersal Lessons
Animals move—it’s our birthright, a gift from ancient ancestors in the form of genes that could eventually code for leg or wing or fin.
Dreamers Reading Room
‘I Have Been a Stranger in a Strange Land’ Exodus 2:22
The boat stares back with many eyes. Some closed in prayer, others close to fainting. A few people imagine childhood homes or hold photos of a small Italian port. Some cry. Some are confused.
A Roadmap of Scars
I do know that slowly, my own heart healed as patients and families invited me into the special intimacy of illness.
Rest in Peace
The roots of a dysfunctional family are deeper than unhealthy thinking; they are steel wire cords.
Will I Forget Your Face?
You were special, hard… but so are gems. You were a shard of glass embedded under my skin.
Prairie Heartbeats
A decade and two years of prairie farming. His hands touching her limp silhouette; Laid in the comfort of her bed.
Have Mercy on Us
The girl laughed at her mother, a bigger laugh than was necessary and took another brownie. She was high.
Thin Air
Maryn concentrated on the feeling of his touch, the cool sensation that passed over her skin…
1915 Rewound
Bodies – One by One – which flail out the Rivers like Salmon, already caught by haunting Men.