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What is honey? Ask young, ask old. What is honey, if not the bee’s gold? But honey is never something so simple. It is the full moon on an October night. The sudden blessing of empty space on a crowded flight. It is warm sand...

There comes a moment when even the strongest frame begins to confess. After enough pressure, enough hidden fractures, the beams begin to bow, the foundation shifts — first slightly, then all at once. You can brace the walls,...

My ancestors prayed their faithful hearts out in a little shul in the Steppes. Prayed to their god of gods in a language as old as the civilization they hoped their prayers might heal. And still it snowed. Snow over the roof and...

I wake long before dawn. How is it only bad habits grow old? Icy windows groan, and it is almost as cold inside as out. A few lights flicker on in this tiny town we once made prosper— small needs ministered by a cluster of shops...

We turn and walk away from the casket. We never thought it wise to gaze on the face of someone who is no longer there. There’s no stopping it now. The betrayal has passed as a fistful of coin from one woman’s hand to another....

Your duties were light, you were spoiled a little, but the holes in the soles of your shoes told me you were willing. Dark nights on watch for mornings that came and never soon enough. We’d break up the fire scatter the dirt and...