My father is talking; he is talking about how he has waited as the house has stayed on the market, watching the price go down. He is talking about the deal he's offered the seller, how he will …
Experience Required: The Long Journey of Ghost Horse
At Stanford, I had felt like an impostor. I had the tremendous good fortune to study with Tobias Wolff, Elizabeth Tallent, and John L'Heureux, as well as the gifted fellow writers in my workshops. But …
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My Summer of the Shark
We trawled the fin through the surf, trying to keep the plank submerged, while my mother filmed from the shore—all of us except José Luis, who was too small to help, and Geraldo, who seemed to want …
The Burning Bed
After our first kiss, I fled to a bar, feeling a vertiginous, not unpleasant, slippage. Kate was to have been for me the amelioration of a lifetime of loss. She was also terrifically sexy, …
