There is no weather in malls..

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a w….

What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight..

Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make..