Up at 4:00 AM, I saw my silhouette on the curtain – a shadow from the night light on the opposite wall. The wisp of hair raised by static was cute – like an infant’s topknot – but my head! My head was just a blob. No...
Read MoreI went to an astronaut’s lecture about orbiting the earth at seventeen thousand five hundred miles per hour. You had to be a PhD or close for that shuttle berth – a scientist at the apogee of your power. First-timers on the...
Read MoreIt was shortly before Christmas in 1 982. I was about halfway through my chief residency year in urologic surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. It was customary that faculty members would give holiday gifts to the...
Read MoreBi(Cycles) by Burcu Seyben When I was a kid, my parents rented a small apartment. Other low-income families, like us, were there, too. Vacations by the sea; I think we stayed for a month or so. I don’t really remember if I liked...
Read MoreIn the pulsing heat, in the black cathedral of war, the amber-tinted silver of infra-red illuminates a man. Nimble in the moment between the squeeze of the trigger and the crack of the rifle, he crouches and fires: stalker and...
Read MoreMorning at his table coffee (or was it tea?) gone cold Should he make breakfast? A dog barks. In the bathroom, he looks in the mirror: dissociates in the...
Read MoreShe lived a typical childhood. Her mother modeled for magazines, on runways, and in stores. Her other mother packaged Tastykakes and Swell Bubble Gum at their factories in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father sold Cadillacs at...
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