My father, Dr. F., noticed my dinner roll trembling then tumbling out of my right hand. “I’ll get you another one,” he offered. “A younger one. The older ones only last so long. It could be the median or radial nerves, the digital sheath, or the flexor sublimis digitorum. Let me see it.” His usual […]
The island slays us. Morning. I arise and spurn the dawn over the eastern horizon. The east is where his body washed ashore: bone-colored board still leashed to bloating ankle and fin sticking up like a white shark beached among the rocks. Both poached by the coming storm— only the third of its size to […]
