I am on the back porch of my childhood home. A large Mexican gray eagle lands on my shoulder and then jumps to [...]

I am trying to leave town in my truck. People have placed two garbage cans as obstacles in the road and have dug [...]

I arrive at a museum. G and my family go in ahead of me. I decide to buy the $10 ticket instead of [...]

G has ordered some dirt. She is not home. A couple arrives in a white station wagon. They park in our garage. The [...]

A new reality show has a man, woman and child, naked with soap, pretending to shower without water.

M faces her senseless execution stoically. I am forced to participate. Infuriated, I punch the fat, shamed executioner in the belly. My arm [...]

I climb through narrow sandstone notch canyons and out into a steeply sloping, red-dirt valley that was formed by a peasant revolt ages [...]

G’s meditation building: A free-standing, round stucco building in the backyard garden of our new home. A Japanese-style wooden beam arch frames the [...]

G and I follow a group of female, Asian, Moonie-type cult people to their trailer parked in the high school parking lot. I [...]

My mother and I step off the neighbor’s porch right next to a sleeping mountain lion. I back away slowly and run to [...]