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Unpublished The road to Baltimore at midnight in January is so cold your tires will complain. In a mid-size two-door sedan with a heater ...

from 'The Xenophobe' It occurred to me in 1996 at some point. I was at the front of my middle school’s campus and the buses had ...

from 'The Xenophobe' The sun had set an hour before we left the house. It was summer and the world went dark around 9. My broth...

Unpublished I knelt at the bank of the Hudson River and plunged my hand in. The icy water refreshed my sweaty palm at first and splashed my ...