I walked into the counselor’s office. It was Eddie Beaver sitting behind the desk. The clerks called him “Skinny Beaver.” He had a pointed head, pointed nose, pointed chin. He was all p...

he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets

big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds

I was sitting in my shorts one afternoon a week later. There was a tender little knock on the door. “Just a moment,” I said. I put on a robe and opened the door. “We’re two girls from G...

unaccountably we are alone forever alone and it was meant to be that way, was never meant

I didn’t have any friends at school, didn’t want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me. During lunch one day I was a...

The 5th grade was a little better. The other students seemed less hostile and I was growing larger physically. I still wasn’t chosen for the homeroom teams but I was threatened less. Da...

she had huge thighs and a very good laugh she laughed at everything and the curtains were yellow and I finished

sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,

Bruckner wasn’t bad even though he got down on his knees and proclaimed Wagner the master.

remember, he told me, that when I… years old my mother was always tak… to the doctor and saying, “he hasn… she was always asking me, “have yo… pooped?”

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