Second Eden
1841 It is evening by the time you arrive at Second Eden: the sun has just set, and there is a nip in the air that presages the autumn…
Floating Garden
It was a truck like the army uses, but instead of the metal frame and tarp, the back was enclosed in a wooden box. Painted on the plywood was…
Old Money Sample Post 2
My great-grandfather’s grandfather bought the island and built the house. Before that, the island was nobody’s. There was evidence of Indians, great piles of clamshells near the southern tip, but…
Old Money Sample Post
My great-grandfather’s grandfather bought the island and built the house. Before that, the island was nobody’s. There was evidence of Indians, great piles of clamshells near the southern tip, but…
Hunters and Gatherers
Greg is on a diet where he eats only what people ate ten thousand years ago, and Gina is down with that—with anything that gets her twenty-six-year-old son out…
The Red Cape
Orlando’s mother, Grace, once said she’d make a terrible liar. I know why she said this. Her face showed her every emotion. I have never had that problem myself.…
Humping the Bush
There is a photograph of our father in an olive drab T-shirt and jungle fatigues, his still-plentiful hair clipped close to his head. He’s crouched on a bald knob…
A Hunting Trip
JP is dreaming and Carlos is in the dream. They’re back in the desert, walking toward a road. In the last two weeks, three Humvees have been blown up…
When Desire Can’t Find Its Object
Three snowy egrets. The birds floated through the viewfinder. Stillness. I turned north, drove hard a thousand miles back to where I’d lived my entire life at the bottom…