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You’re A Hell Of A Masseuse.

A short story about massages.

My Wife Doesn’t Know Mr. Ed.

Or why squirrels, bees, and possibly hummingbirds hate her.

Morgan Organ

He was meant to be a bird dog until he started acting like Harry Reems.

Maxwell’s New Teeth.

A short story about stubbornness and friendship.

Alien Fruit Flies.

Or why George Lucas should talk to my wife.

This Is Us

On Keeping a Comic Book

Reading these little-loved X-Men comics brings my…

“Screenwriters call this awakening ‘the inciting incident,’ the moment when the protagonist reaches a fork in the road and chooses one of two paths. That fork for me was both figurative and literal. One night for dinner…

How Do You Report on a Pandemic That Hits Home?

Putting the COVID-19 pandemic into words hasn’t been…

Friend of the Devil

More than a decade ago, an acquaintance committed one of the most nefarious crimes in New York history. Then he helped me try to understand why.

The Art of Reporting on a World That’s Falling Apart

Never look at social media in the morning, and…