WE LEAVE EVERYTHING as it is in R's hot front yard because we'll be right back. There are things we need at the big stores. We walk the half mile down the long hill to the bus stop where the one bus ...  [+]

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 finger on ...  [+]

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 ...  [+]