They told me over the phone that the sun never set in the summertime and they wore sunglasses until 10 pm:     "And the silvers are so...

When words are spoken at 40 below, they emerge as puffs and fall languidly to the g round. They sink silently into the snow. Come spring,...

The boy tried to shrink beneath the covers. The yelling in the front room was one-sided, slurred. "Goddam you," he heard, accompanied by...

I used to call you (no-no) Your dark, co-co skin too opaque, I thought, to see through. I used to minnie-miney-mo you, catch you by the...