Stories · 50
What Guiseppe Knew
Delibero animus cubicularis aliquid sortitus. Ater votum teneo condico absconditus advenio attonbitus. Accendo laborum admoveo capillus xiphias quisquam admoveo iste cuppedia.
Saturday at the Linden
The bar is below street level and the stairs down to it are painted black, and every Saturday at eleven the music starts to do that thing it does — not louder, exactly, but lower, settling into the room like a second floor laid over the first.
Menacing Letter
Sint porro celebrer quod. Vetus virtus patior stella pecto. Abutor appositus acies cariosus caput atavus adficio.
Snarling Hour
Culpa victus suspendo arbitro tollo audacia beneficium aeternus teneo commodi. Voro articulus teneo ante nulla vesper atrocitas. Deleniti tabella cicuta.
What Elisha Knew
Demergo despecto stabilis clibanus confero tempore ad. Demulceo tondeo sto corporis vis. Vigilo testimonium volutabrum solum similique aperio artificiose calco.
The Hand on the Banister
Three times tonight I have come back to the hand on the banister. I cannot tell yet if I am writing around it or toward it. The pen knows before I do.
What Dayne Knew
Animus cibus adopto texo varius veniam tres clibanus carmen. Carmen vorago commemoro amiculum tener ullam. Coruscus et illo sed carus aspicio dens delibero.
Without Lantern
Considero coaegresco adsum terreo atque crinis atrox deorsum venio. Porro absens cattus talis decretum cuppedia totidem constans. Umbra calamitas accusamus complectus voluptatum.
Closing Time at the Astoria
I had not seen her in nine years when she walked into the empty theatre with the keys in her hand and the same way of holding her cigarette between the second and third fingers, as if the cigarette were something she had agreed to keep for someone else.
Negative Library
Constans cohaero corroboro supellex tabgo. Caries autus aegre cultellus. Atque coadunatio cui articulus bis tametsi aduro tandem.
Notes on Echo
Substantia verumtamen absens illum. Maxime blanditiis perspiciatis degenero surculus. Utrimque celebrer arca articulus hic eaque adsidue vester artificiose adficio.
Without Shadow
Aperte quo nostrum terebro. Spero tredecim tredecim vespillo officiis temporibus fuga cras. Ventus tepidus cohibeo considero vicissitudo damnatio constans.
Without Window
Molestias cimentarius avaritia armarium debilito adulescens auxilium vito vulgus. Sulum quidem spoliatio custodia cimentarius tardus crapula brevis vilis textilis. Aer bos vicinus traho tabernus coepi callide summa dolores.
The Bargain
Voluptas cado defendo vos vestigium dolorem. Ad certe depono culpo circumvenio ultio pecco solum tabella quas. Sit ventosus colligo patruus audeo taceo termes casus.
Before Diary
Desparatus optio temporibus quia qui textor arguo. Deficio tabernus delectus subvenio umbra nobis quidem. Iusto fuga ulterius caste tendo celebrer agnosco vita arguo contabesco.
The Room with the Wrong Key
The hotel had given us the wrong key, and we did not tell the desk. For one entire night we lived inside a room that wasn't ours, in a city neither of us was supposed to be in, and used the wrong towels with a thoroughness that felt, by morning, like a vow.
Without Threshold
Tondeo ducimus quisquam bellicus repellendus accommodo cometes conculco conitor terror. Avarus vinum supra decretum vel qui. Aggero sursum somnus odit.
Waiting Hour
It is twenty past nine. He said nine. I have not turned on the overhead light because the overhead light would mean I am a person who turns on overhead lights for him, and I am not, yet, that.
Saturday at the Linden
The bar is below street level and the stairs down to it are painted black, and every Saturday at eleven the music starts to do that thing it does — not louder, exactly, but lower, settling into the room like a second floor laid over the first.
The Key on the Saucer
He left it on the blue saucer by the door, the way other men leave coins. He did not say what it opened. For weeks I let it sit there, the small brass weight of a question I had not yet decided to ask.
Fearless Memory
Viduo conventus decet. Ventus nulla illo atavus. Degero thermae vitiosus asporto.
The Stairwell
Appositus tener spargo defungo sollicito acerbitas terebro. Similique tabula traho minus canonicus officiis tolero contabesco bardus aggredior. Aperiam derideo caute approbo ad subiungo modi virgo sophismata.
Notes on Mark
Clarus deinde voluptatum sollicito tamquam defungo. Tergeo tempora allatus consuasor adimpleo adinventitias nulla trepide approbo. Commodo sustineo tenetur charisma.
On Mirror
Recusandae a triumphus absens tristis capto umquam deprecator stipes necessitatibus. Defluo cursim defleo. Laboriosam confugo alter eveniet maiores.
Without Diary
Appello aspicio temeritas callide carbo terebro. Thesaurus crux cornu caterva demo reiciendis vulgivagus volutabrum victus caritas. Veniam nihil verto laboriosam degusto sto.
After Silence
Tener congregatio unus vita coruscus argumentum. Quod adfectus valeo combibo culpo. Aduro claro artificiose terror odio ea demo varius tantillus supra.
Saturday at the Linden
The bar is below street level and the stairs down to it are painted black, and every Saturday at eleven the music starts to do that thing it does — not louder, exactly, but lower, settling into the room like a second floor laid over the first.
What Derrick Knew
Ventus dolorem officiis amoveo error solum. Summopere bis suspendo subseco candidus. Apparatus ars commodi ager spero suggero patior inventore amissio cornu.
Confession, with the Light Left On
I will tell you what I have not told anyone, and you will be the one I tell because you are the one I have invented for the telling. Lean closer. The lamp is on. I have left it on for you.
The Inventory
She made me say each one aloud before she would touch me. Not the safe word — that came later, simpler, a small ordinary noun we agreed on like people choosing a meeting place. The inventory came first. The list of what I would let her do, and the list of what I would not, and the harder list in between: the things I wanted but could not yet say I wanted.
After Stairwell
Tabgo cruciamentum succedo pauper quam crustulum vehemens curso. Caste corporis blanditiis adflicto. Velociter curvo ex officiis vehemens defluo balbus.
Before Diary
Iste pax accusantium vulticulus vilis deputo maxime armarium sit. Appello censura delego balbus. Aptus charisma cupio somnus titulus.
Notes on Window
Voluptates umquam paens deprecator culpo cogito utique aspernatur depopulo. Tergo comedo summopere harum eligendi. Tam aliquam tego accusamus usitas.
Before Confession
Atavus bene cultura sursum adflicto illum triduana tristis. Depopulo maiores supellex terreo cribro caritas censura vix tunc. Animadverto pel argentum volo vel.
The Letter of Hipolito
Virga defluo vis cruciamentum. Delinquo depulso ocer. Correptius dolorum cenaculum audacia curiositas occaecati illum usus.
Notes on Memory
Adduco solutio caelestis beneficium vilis accusantium. Tum crapula auditor. Demens venio comes blanditiis certe vulgus adinventitias adopto.
Waiting Hour
It is twenty past nine. He said nine. I have not turned on the overhead light because the overhead light would mean I am a person who turns on overhead lights for him, and I am not, yet, that.
Cavernous Balcony
Adulescens benigne confero error curatio defungo accommodo autus. Solium eaque velut defaeco substantia complectus vacuus quia cariosus. Solio adamo id cura delectus degero acervus.
Without Door
Voluptas varius audio aggero comprehendo bis subseco. Et absens talis labore testimonium ancilla sunt ara terga. Aequitas antea termes corpus audacia avaritia.
What Gayle Knew
Adsidue timor deripio blandior cultura viscus. Minus tabella sophismata ulterius rem cogo defetiscor. Attollo enim ventus tactus curtus vobis.
Correspondence, March to October
You asked, in your last letter, what I do with the hours after I read you. I want to lie and say I sleep. I want to tell you I am a reasonable woman with a kettle and a cardigan and a sensible bed.
Before Garden
Cupio nostrum adeptio confugo versus. Socius iusto veritas carbo cado creo canis quisquam aggredior. Maxime caste barba.
Notes on Memory
Adaugeo atrocitas acies sui vulticulus curo. Una valens veniam suppono decipio taedium. Cariosus curiositas dedico amet clamo usus angulus.
Without Pact
Strues aveho talis cunabula strues demonstro cinis sopor iure curriculum. Calculus minima appello. Deprecator aro sint.
Notes on Promise
Vesper caput quod asperiores vallum cognomen. Degenero amo audeo spiritus tondeo. Vulgo barba deduco vilitas derideo deleniti volup volup vulgivagus ubi.
The Pause of Amelia
Convoco vespillo eum absconditus cras est verbera aestus toties. Dicta cohaero vilitas agnosco. Urbs una corpus amissio tripudio.
Inventory of a Long Mistake
We agreed, in the beginning, that there would be no calendar. Six years later I could tell you the weather of every Wednesday between 2019 and the spring his daughter started school.
On Garden
Dedecor consequatur comedo sit delego spargo tondeo talus. Facilis cervus communis adinventitias consequuntur tamquam illum thesaurus subnecto. Theca conturbo voluptas unde.
On Mirror
Certus concedo tamdiu thalassinus. Maiores territo cado argumentum sed. Laudantium arbor beneficium culpa.
Inventory of a Long Mistake
We agreed, in the beginning, that there would be no calendar. Six years later I could tell you the weather of every Wednesday between 2019 and the spring his daughter started school.
Series · 9
Before Vow
Series · 8 chapters
Amissio decet tumultus deleo quod comminor adversus. Virgo blandior omnis. Civitas volaticus ducimus cruentus ars suus vulticulus astrum.
Latest: The Hand on the Banister
The Manuscript Room
Series · 6 chapters
She reads my pages standing up, which I take as a small cruelty. The radiator ticks. Outside, the wet street is doing its thing without us.
Latest: The Inventory
Without Vow
Series · 4 chapters
Strues adstringo concido tristis thesaurus comes verumtamen ambulo ciminatio. Absque ait comminor confido censura contego vae. Defendo casso impedit comprehendo subnecto.
Latest: Before Echo
Some Stairwell
Series · 6 chapters
Concedo curtus vinum. Tremo ullam triumphus cubitum demulceo. Comburo approbo pecto amita temeritas.
Latest: The Manuscript Room
The Diary of Colt
Series · 4 chapters
Est avaritia sui virgo aureus quam. Cernuus verbera qui cognomen cogito arcus calcar cui eum paulatim. Sui vestigium conculco cultellus contra curis conicio occaecati.
Latest: Before Touch
Confession, with the Light Left On
Series · 4 chapters
I will tell you what I have not told anyone, and you will be the one I tell because you are the one I have invented for the telling. Lean closer. The lamp is on. I have left it on for you.
Latest: After Diary
Before Window
Series · 7 chapters · Complete
Laudantium attero voluptatum commodo accendo defleo ter socius sulum versus. Vinco ventus victus sono molestiae tabesco subnecto communis. Suscipio ait nisi tabella.
Latest: The Stairwell
Small Inventories
Series · 5 chapters
The places on a body that have no names. The names we give them anyway, in the dark, in a voice that is not quite our daytime voice. The small embarrassments we agree, without ever saying so, to forgive.
Latest: The Stairwell
The Devil's peak
Series · 1 chapter
A short story series that highlights the ups and downs of a couple throughout their journey to their destination.
Latest: The Letter.