I was in the 4th grade when I found out about it. I was probably one of the last to know, because I still didn’t talk to anybody. A boy walked up to “Your mother has a hole . . .”—he to...

I go to pick her up. she’s on some errand. she always has errands many things to do. I have nothing to do.

I get too many phone calls. they seek the creature out. they shouldn’t.

92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago

this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a

Tammie came by that night. She appeared to be high on uppers. “I want some champagne,” she said. Then the phone rang. It was Lydia. “I just wondered how you were doing. ...” “You know D...

she bent over the side of the bed and opened the portfolio along the side of the wall. we were drinking. she said, “you promised me these

here I am in the ground my mouth open and

my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him

sick with the flu drinking beer my radio on loud enough to overcome the sounds of the

The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...