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Artwork by the author and his daughter, Freddy O’Malley The only friend I ever heard about was Carl. They played golf on Sundays, out around Wentzville. It happened once, maybe twice a year that Dad would win, and then he’d hurry home and drive me or my mom over to Carl’s office to get our […]

What else is left for me to come right out with other than a simple list of everything blood has turned out to be no thicker than-viz., both parents, an ex-spouse, my daughter and her selectively unhappy brother? Father was a spuddy little fellow uncolored by anything in life. My room had always had too […]

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We didn’t have enough money for first and last month’s rent and security deposit, so we moved into the guest bedroom of my parents’ house, which doubled as a doily-infested showroom for my mom’s first edition American Girl doll collection. Under the glassy eyes of Samantha, Molly, Kirsten, and Felicity, Wendy and I lay next […]

Ezra Dodson had wrapped and bound the bodies of his wife and daughter during a snowstorm in February, the month the Apache call the Moon of Sleeping Bears, and had sunk them beneath the ice of the Rio Hondo.  He watched the hole he had hacked close over as clear as any lens, and with […]

  I flip through a folio of 112 color photographs. Thousands of acrobatic women, pyramids of men in the mud, stars and fountain shapes created by dancing children, words discernible only to those with a bird’s eye from the stands. Spartakiada-a mass gymnastics event, initiated by the esperanto enthusiast Jiří František Chaloupecký-was held in a […]

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I am alive but not alive. Sister in the kitchen, searching for what we lost. As soon as Mother is home, that will be the end. The lilies on the sill in soft decay. In hushed voices, the fence unlocked. Her words soft, slow, precise. Sister is quiet. I hold her in the light. She […]

When they come for her mother’s body, Aileen is in the kitchen. She does not flinch as she hears the ambulance doors slam, the heavy footfalls on the front porch, the stretcher crashing and scraping against the doorframe. The TV is still on when two EMT’s enter the house. Aileen leads them down the hallway, […]