We traded memories through the night, starting with branches of personal history and working backward until we reached the primeval muck that fuels a life.
Fiction
Tinnitus occurs for many reasons, most of them vague.
Drone
They say evolution occurs most rapidly in body parts that attract lovers and frighten rivals.
Red Shift
Maps of the Arctic give me vertigo. All that blank bright land feels like leaping off a rooftop.
Passage
Cut to commercial, and I hum along with a jingle for a machine that controls your brainwaves while you sleep.
Radioactivity
It was a run-down joint where time stood still and probably slid backward.
The Comfort Lounge
A Matter of Degrees
Some Americans like to tie a pair of shoes together and toss them at a power line.
Dangling Shoes
“Science shouldn’t explain everything,” she told me.
The Corners of the Ceiling
Maybe you’ve heard the stories, the baroque theories on late-night radio or the soliloquies of sunburnt men who mutter at the traffic.
Folk Religion
The Greatest Show on Earth
