Before we buried Oma, she had been vain, in the same way that a muscular man is vain. She moved like fingers in a cash drawer, fingers that picked and snapped.    Oma once cried, O! Her finge ... [+]

My big brother left and didn't come back the same, came back with a girlfriend. They live in the upstairs back room now. There's a lot that's changed, a lot of ugly new clothes in the laundry, and I ... [+]