I'm slowly clearing out my brother's small bedroom (the smallest in the house.) to use for storage.
Anchor Baby – Novel Excerpt
Caleb,
You must be wondering how I knew where to send this. I’m sorry I snooped to find out, but I promise I’m trying to help. Your uncle still doesn’t know you’re planning on leaving the company, but he’s suspicious. He knows, for example, that you’ve been trying to open your adoption file—I didn’t tell him, he just found out—and he’s taking this as some sign of instability.
Every Man a Misfit
Whenever I read O’Connor, I go back to my grandmother’s house in Bills’ country. The hedges in front of the white house and old chicken coops in the back remind me of O’Connor’s Andalusia Farm. My grandmother who convicted O.J. of murder before he was a suspect, who made my uncle redo his confession because he went to the Italian Catholic Church instead of the Irish one, who kept a portrait in the living room of her long-deceased husband until the day she died, reminds me of several O’Connor characters.
This Is How She Wakes
For every man worth meeting, a thousand others come to the beach with masked emotions and wearing money on their faces.
Needing to Feel Thankful
The road map is also red, and it will cost me if I’m late for my presentation. With two boys in college, I’m counting on the promotion and raise. We need a larger apartment and a car worth more than the gas in its tank.
A good run; Arrangements; Cleaning; Doubts; Poetry of Age
Arrangements
I will belong to that city I die in, mourned in that language.