Fiction

Hallucinator

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.

Drone

Tinnitus occurs for many reasons, most of them vague.

Red Shift

They say evolution occurs most rapidly in body parts that attract lovers and frighten rivals.

Passage

Maps of the Arctic give me vertigo. All that blank bright land feels like leaping off a rooftop.

Radioactivity

Cut to commercial, and I hum along with a jingle for a machine that controls your brainwaves while you sleep.

The Comfort Lounge

It was a run-down joint where time stood still and probably slid backward.

A Matter of Degrees

Dangling Shoes

Some Americans like to tie a pair of shoes together and toss them at a power line.

The Corners of the Ceiling

“Science shouldn’t explain everything,” she told me.

Folk Religion

Maybe you’ve heard the stories, the baroque theories on late-night radio or the soliloquies of sunburnt men who mutter at the traffic.

The Greatest Show on Earth

The Diver