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A lighthouse stands. A lighthouse stands sentry some four miles off Ireland’s southernmost coast. This lighthouse is named the Fastnet after the rock on which […]

I don’t know what happened. The sun began torturing the moon. Everything visible was scraped with light. The peonies dripped petals in the hedge, and […]

The line takes forever, but finally it’s my turn. I stare at my best friend, tucked into a girl-sized mahogany coffin. Bridget is incredibly dead. […]

The Old Crooner Makes the Pop Star an Offer The pop star goes clothes shopping in London. Her usual shopping buddy, another singer, is not […]

So today Mena’s got a bucket, and a bright, sharp trowel, and a scary-sharp gleam in her eye. Rain’s streaming down, and the air’s thick […]

Businessmen do not often dwell far from the fluorescent halls of their elective palaces. Still, businessmen go walking. They commute from the private to the […]

Friday is Johnny’s goodbye party, themed “Italian vs. American.” We face off — tiramisu versus ice cream nachos; Birra Moretti versus Sam Adams; Andrea Bocelli versus […]

My colleague mentions seeing between words. He says if he unfocuses his eyes he can worm his way through the empty network on the page, […]

I want to look (inside) and see that the (centre) leads to a different world. A kaleidoscope of a world. And in that world is […]

She’s out in the backyard, squatting over a pile of sticks. She just turned up one day, said her mother was drunk, again, and she […]