‘While he didn't mind (not much anyway) being responsible for the death of one cat, his cat, he did not feel good shouldering the death of four cats.’
Ten years after she divorced him, Albert’s wife Lenore brought him a cat. She’d gotten it from the biomed lab at the research hospital where she was a nurse—they had planned to euthanize it. A kitten. Lenore’s husband, a doctor, was allergic, and the cat was a longhair, and she asked Albert …
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‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
‘You’re gonna want to go down the other side of the mountain and check out the Facility. Don’t do it.’
‘Autumn, once the most popular season in this town of tall trees, is now regarded with dread, thanks to the bitter athletic rivalry between our two local high schools.’
Americans, speaking of foreign lands, often say, 'It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.'
‘She lay there, her hand on her jeans in the place where she’d seen John’s head coming out of his mother.’
‘Postures of graceful receptivity, or surrender. How do we tell the difference?’
A.K. Blakemore introduces Suzie Howell’s photographs.
One sprig should do, in a wayfarer’s satchel, to assist in losing all bearings until...
