“If Nadine got into Heaven, ain’t nobody going to Hell,” Sally Simpson, one of the girls she’s standing with, says under her breath...
The Cheap Shit Gets You Drunk the Fastest
I Could Tell You Stories
Many a kid at Olympic High regarded getting Ms. Furr for English in the same light as a prison sentence, but for me, it was the best part of my day.
Interrogating the Detective – Novel Excerpt
The smile disappeared. “You think I did it, killed Raina. Well, I didn’t. I would never have put Paul in that position. He’s like my boy, my beautiful boy.” She had come around the table and was standing next to me, thigh lightly against my arm, and with one finger traced a line on my face exactly where the scar was on her own. “Besides, I already have too many regrets.”
Books, The Expansive
At an early age, they loved reading so much that they yearned to talk back, to join the discussion, to write.
The Falcon’s Choice
He watched her hesitate for a second and wondered if this would be the time when she chose her freedom over him.
The Last Time They Said “This Is No Drill” at Pearl Harbor; The Poet Vanishes; Contributor’s Note; A Song Outside the Christian Science Reading Room; Call and Response
Poets never look like their poems.
This one ends with you wearing a tunic
as blue as a cornflower clasped
by a golden brooch, and your fearless glare,
and the sword, the bloody sword.