Nonfiction

Let me pledge allegiance to the planet. Let me list all the places I love on a passport that actually represents my sense of belonging and identity.

It was Memorial Day weekend, and my friends and I were celebrating Clare’s last fling before the ring in Scottsdale, Arizona. While sitting poolside in a...

Perhaps their bodies sensed the heartache ahead, the disappointment that waited—that they couldn’t hold onto this version of reality. So they let go of it.

Six degrees of separation is the hypothesis that anyone on earth can be connected to any other person through a chain of acquaintances with no more than five intermediaries.

And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LordDeuteronomy 6:18Hetty stepped over the milk bottles near the front door and began the...

They were his creation and he cared for them like a father should.

A chance meeting brings back memories of a difficult childhood.

A brief memory from 1918.

A boy helps out 'the deaf kid' who is being picked on by the orphanage bullies.

An atmospheric recollection of a riverside encounter.

The reaction of one Nepalese family when a learned sadhu prophesizes the end of the world.

A beautifully constructed tale based on the true story of a night spent in jail with the last man to be hanged in Whitesburg, Ky.