On the top floor of a magnificent high-rise, a young woman pirouettes into the middle of the room. She hop-skips around a deep, bubbling...

TODAY WAS A SPECIAL DAY. He pulls up in front of the pharmacy and triple-checks his belongings: ID, Health Insurance Card, tissues –...

THE NOISY CHATTER ON NIKOLSKAYA, the pedestrian street connecting the Red Square and Lubyanka, falls mute against the thick windows of...

A silver moon shines over the sandy coastline of Serifos, Land of the Cyclops. Frothy waves brake against salty shores and wispy clouds...

IN THE SPARKLING AEGEAN SEA in the western Cycladic Archipelago, south of Kythnos and northwest of Sifnos, lies a small island: Serifos,...

HE WASN’T QUITE SURE WHERE THEY WERE, but he knew they were somewhere in California. His parents had told him that they’d stopped between...

“HOW MUCH FOR THIS ONE?” I held up a heavy, ornamented necklace. The gold souk was alive and glittering. Street merchants everywhere,...

“YOUNG MAN! Young man! Wait just one moment please!” The portly Sausage Roll Lady comes waddling out of the bakery, waving her doughy...

A LONG, STEEL PIPE smashes against my head with a metallic CLANG! I’m awake!! What day is it? What year is it? I look at my alarm clock....

ONE DAY, when I was in a time of need, the Fates reached out to me. They extended their hands in shape of a man who was further along in...

“THAT’S IT! Final stop – everybody out!” The disembodied voice of the Tram Driver blares statically through the speaker. “Final stop?”...

One day, we went to a rave at the top of a mountain. As we walked up the gravel road our path merged with those of creatures and people,...

“I GOTTA GO! I’ll see you later!” He kisses her on the cheek, double checks his gear and mounts the hot-rod red YAMAHA XSR900. The engine...

STANDING ON THE STAGE of the auditorium, the man glances anxiously at the clock. The long arm indicates seven minutes past the hour. Why...

THE SIGNS were all there. It was so obvious! Why did everyone refuse to see it but him? For many weeks now he’d been gathering...

ON THE OUTSKIRTS of a small village, in a deep valley surrounded by high mountains, there is a stone bridge that crosses the river. Next...

The first time we met she said: “I hate my job. You wouldn’t believe the shit that goes down where I work.” She works in finance, “so...

It was one of those evenings where one could see the sun descend and the moon wake at the same time. The pale blue sky was awash with...

STANDING IN A BEAM OF LIGHT, I close my eyes and think of the Sun. I think of the immense distance between us. Space. I think of myself,...