When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment, Steven watched the….

At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed..

I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered, ram….

Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess..

His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him..

The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering..

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?.

To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out….