German Dario resides in Tempe, Arizona with his wife, two sons, three dogs, a guinea pig, many plants, and sometimes a fish. Recently...

I knew him in the way you know someone from a bar where you’re a regular. But he’s not a regular; appears here and there. It’s winter,...

A sequel to Craziness Before the moon swells, and a god untangles a knot at my thighs, and my room smells blue in summer & mistletoe, my...

Raccoon problems are chucklesome. When garbage strewn across the driveway and the lawn reveal your raccoon problem, of course, you’re...

What was that? What was it? I recall reading it on the bluish leather couch while she was breakfasting at the kitchen table under that...

I’m still not sure it’s legal. A young cop stopped us once, asked what we were doing, and when I told him, he apologized. Some people act...

I admit I’m freaked out about going under in two days to get big teeth from the back of my mouth pulled, and somehow this devolves into...

You’re standing by the side gate of your place, waiting for your son to come home on the first day that he’s walking home from school on...

Our Illinois college town was a complicated organism, the busy campus of Prairie State, way more than an educational institution. It...

The black dog died of blunt force trauma. It happened at dusk on the first hole, the shortest of the three-hole golf course that Mike...

It was common knowledge that Nairobi was one big bedroom. He came into her life when this fact no longer kept her awake at night. She...