one’s life can be read through bodies: my arms reach out to steal my brother’s blessing, then, legs twist around my waist and in the darkness I press my lips against a salty neck, crying out her name …
To read Anil Menon’s story, The Jaguar’s Wife, please click on the link below in order to read it as a pdf file. The Jaguar’s Wife ANIL MENON’s short fiction has appeared in a variety of international magazines and anthologies…
Several years ago, I started writing a story about a man who was flying into Minneapolis-St. Paul and saw a car crash from above. The plane was about a thousand feet up and was descending when he saw the crash.…
Excerpted from A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade, forthcoming in April of 2014. “‘Which one of the letters does not belong in the following series? A – D – G – I – J – M…
Recorded at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on the occasion of the induction of Elvis and Jesse Presley into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, January 23rd, 1986 [Sustained applause] [Elvis Presley]: Well, the last record Jesse and I made…
the mechanism of beginning What enables the karakuri ningyo to commence operation is the auto-adjustment pin, which—as with all parts save the mainspring—must be crafted of nothing but the most appropriate wood, harvested and fashioned at the proper time of…
