I am six. My father sits at the fold-away card table in our kitchen smoking an entire pack of menthol cigarettes. He grinds each smoldering cherry into table’s vinyl top, filling the kitchen with a smog of nicotine, menthol and …
Month: April 2018

On Earth as it is in Heaven (excerpt)
The first light of dawn stretched across the horizon, cracking the night’s world into two spheres. One, an indigo canopy of fading stars, and the other, a yawning valley flooded with a verdant sea of prairie grass. Warm winds hushed …