When Tony Sutter gave his first solo performance in fourth grade music class, his chattering classmates shut up and his music teacher’s fingertips froze on the ivories. Up and down the hall of Ermine Elementary, the other teachers lost their places in mid-lesson monologues and their students quit strategizing about how to improve their positions in the lunchroom line Continue Reading
An Excerpt from ‘Memories of Water’
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These are the things Tee learned in Prague, before his father came and flew him back to Mass General Hospital in September of 2002:
1. If someone sneezes while you’re talking, what you are saying is true.
2. If your nose is soft, you’re lying. Continue Reading
The Moth and the Butterfly
“Joaquin was the one I loved,” Dolly said brokenly from the upstairs window. “Ramon. With all my heart. Domingo.”
“In the summer of ’55 I was getting my hair done. I was looking through a Time magazine, through the ‘Milestones’ section. I saw that he’d died. Of a heart attack, in L.A. Continue Reading
Zolpidem
Around the time my wife wanted a baby, I stopped sleeping. Then I had trouble with erections, not finishing what I started, or what she started. Kelly was fierce with the urge and took it all to mean I didn’t want a baby, and moved to the guest room.
I went to my doctor, who had ruffled wings of gray over his ears, making him look slightly mad. Continue Reading
This Is Between Us: Excerpts
We’re Here For the Music
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We were in the bar of a fancy hotel and our heads felt lopsided with sloshed alcohol. The DJ played songs from the 80s and our friends said they wanted to dance. I flailed my arms like a joke and grinned like an idiot. Continue Reading
Kimball
Thursday night, I talked to my sister Alice more about having Kimball’s baby for them. They’d been trying for ten years, had one miscarriage, and now Kimball was sick again, in the hospital again. I think we all knew this would be one of the last times.
“I’m thirty-six, Alice. I might not be able to get pregnant either,” I said. Continue Reading
Boo Radley’s Back Pages
May 15, 1856: The would-be birthday of American author L. Frank Baum, the wonderful wizard behind Oz.
"I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”
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