Summer 2022

There's a pair of heart-shaped sunglasses, sun-faded to cream and an empty gauze bag printed with gold moons and stars discarded. There's a felt patch with the Red Sox logo--but it's unlike any logo you've seen in this decade or the last two. A candle in an amber glass, watermelon lip gloss, and a dried-out rose. Tarot cards and ( Read more... )

It was a stressful week--actually, I remember now. I had gone out almost every day after work, starting the Monday before when my dad took me to the new casino after sundown. On the second I learned that we were closing at noon on the holiday. Awesome, I thought, my shift usually starts at 10:30. I'll just have to work two hours, or because my ( Read more... )

I came into this world breathing Boston air. And since I was a child, I knew from family get-togethers in the yellowing kitchen of my grandmother's house that the women of my family spent the 80s and 90s reading Stephen King. My mother and my aunts on my father's side talked about how he makes a web of his books. Talked about how the books are ( Read more... )

The lights turned off. The old Universal logo appeared on the curtains and the lights from the stars shimmered on the velvet as it swung open in great rolls, revealing a gigantic movie screen behind. The tinny orchestral opening sounded loud in the theater and I felt my eyes opening up wider. People say that going to the movies in the old days was ( Read more... )