Wind

Maybe you did not go to church because God lets crazy people shoot fifty strangers. I have not been going because God has ruined my life in other ways. I walked into a church, a church where no one knew me, so maybe I would feel different, and an usher told me not to […]

Get and Take

The woman was pleased that I was buying an umbrella. I had just splashed through Rockefeller Center, in three inches of rain, this made me laugh. Nothing was making me laugh at all, only actually wading in my sandals, running between the buildings there. “Once we sold almost every umbrella we had, to this whole […]

Wondrous

Someone said, “You should read this book,” and the next day the book mentioned the “Twilight Zone” episode I had just shown my class, the one with an evil child controlling an entire town. This was right after the doctor told me my ovaries were closed for business. Well, that my brain was sending out buckets […]

Unisphere, Perisphere

I didn’t go to Queens to see the Unisphere. As I approached it, it opened and arched and bent different ways, and I stepped up and over the edge of what would hold in water, if it was summer, and walked under it, and there was a kite caught in one edge, near the Americas, and […]