150 Days
Today marks 150 days since the last time I felt external physical touch of any kind. It’s an incredibly strange sensation to describe, and I’m sure there are millions out […]
Tag Archives: Detroit
Beyond Breach
He stares at the visual monitor like he expects to see something out there. He won’t. He tells me to slow down, afraid the engines will overheat and that we’ll […]
Breach
They argue with each other that they know the etchings on the wall, as they call them, are from before The Shift. I find that hard to believe, because the […]
More Than a Love Story
They met at a wedding. It was his best friend and her cousin. It was 1978. At the time, he was living in San Diego. She was working through her […]
Dancer in the Water
My flight arrived in Detroit at ten after four. It was raining. I was so nervous to see everyone that I threw up in the bathroom next to the gate. […]
The Nine
The screeching howl of grinding metal resonated through Father Jerba’s two-story, one bedroom house that sat on the north end of campus. The crash and rumble startled him out […]
The First of Many
In a small, suburban duplex someplace just northwest of Downtown Detroit, a young man named Gregory has just suffered his first rejection. It came over the phone while his best […]
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