I’ll bet that giraffes don’t know what a fart smells like.

Twice now, I’ve sneezed and it feels like I’ve ripped something from the back of my smoke-parched throat. I do this after learning that the President and First Lady have tested positive for COVID-19. “Well, folks, that there is the election,” my wife has pronounced. Meanwhile, someplace in the back of my mind I hear…

She started to cry. Long, hard sobs that felt like she were emptying her soul down her face, down to her chin, snot draining from her nose. Everything seemed to be falling out of her life and she couldn’t control it what was happening. The idea made her begin to laugh, first low and quiet,…

Why I should recall his face after so many years, I don’t know. Dale White Sun is his name and I met him at the Stumps. A Shoshone, he had never lived on a reservation. No, he grew up a suburban child in Glendale, Arizona. Once his service was up, he left the Corps and…

The thought of thee some stillness doth beget. I stunn’d am by thy generosity, By thought of thee my problems I forget. Upon high desert we two shall soon be seen, For yonder love doth wait on our behest. I ne’er shall from embrace of true love wean, My love for thee hath ev’ry day…

“You are everything that you’ve ever experienced during your lifetime,” the man said, sitting at the opposite end of the bench, where all of this had begun. Her head suddenly filled with ‘pain,’ and then dissipated to vague memories. “What did you do?” she tried to scream. “Nothing. You’re the one doing it. You’ve been…

My wife’s intuition is so highly developed she often knows when I’m wrong even before I open my mouth.

Turned on the television to watch a political dog-and-pony show and an actual debate broke out.

Sleep came to her shortly afterwards. Dreams also came, disquieting dreams. In them, she spun and spun. She couldn’t tell if she was floating upward or being dragged down. The constant and confusing rotation eventually fell away to a lightness that was very uncomfortable in its coming. She relaxed and allowed the lightness wash over…

The man held the rosary out to the young woman. She stared at it. “But I’m not…” she began. She didn’t get the chance to finish. “Don’t have to be.” “Who are you?” “I think you already know. You don’t wanna admit it though.” “I’m lost.” “Yeah, you are, you have been for a very…