"Fiction is our most intimate and acute means of communication, at a
profound level, about our deepest apprehensions and intuitions on the
meaning of life and death."

-John Cheever, 1964
| - | The Only Reasonable Explanation - After his wife promised him that she meant business, after he watched her unzip her suitcase and begin filling it with pajamas, a clean pair of silk panties, some toiletries, Richard went into the kitchen and started washing dishes.
| - | Hiding Places - The night the police officer came to pick up my father I was in the house watching cartoons. 
| - | The Treatment of Injuries -  Norman Laraby’s eyes are fixed on the kitchen window and what’s beyond, but his mind is occupied with snapshots of muddy fists that won’t stop grazing his face.  
| - | Following Through - I can hear rats dying in the wall beside me.  When the sound first reached me I was in the middle of sending an email to a coworker two stalls down.