The Enron in my face is unmistakable for I have borrowed millions against the accounts of my father, secreting them in the hope chest of my parents’ wedding dreams: a large pine box affair with a red heart painted on the upside-down lid. Though we kept the creditors at bay for generations by appearing to [...]

I windshield shimmer her jaunt down Wilshire Blvd. just west of Rodeo Drive, her beauty all past benz and maseratis legs, dear god, she wears nothing below her belt (pudenda v as clear as black) her dancing joints, no skirt, no pants, I’m lost. A prostitute on drugs? And brown as Africa this deep princess [...]

2Helga@80 by Stephen Gyllenhaal Is there a mountain taller than 80? Could you show it to me, please? For instance, take Mount Everest: pretty tall, I’d say, except when it’s at its top, or near its top can it begin to talk of having loved, of having brought into this world a single child? And [...]

I have set out from that port (years ago now) with what I knew in my Spanish heart to be the most progressive thinking (for instance that the world was not flat.) I have sailed with my courageous crew, using the most modern navigational gear available only slowly learning it was not up to the [...]

By Stephen Gyllenhaal I have set out from that port (years ago now) with what I knew in my Spanish heart to be the most progressive thinking (for instance that the world was not flat.) I have sailed with my courageous crew, using the most modern navigational gear available only slowly learning it was not [...]

We understand how it comes to this: the oven door, the gas turned on, a flower bending as we carve our wicked smiles and try to match what matches us. And when we do it right as we’re bound to do with everything undone, even our clothes left for dead, scrabbling to put the pieces [...]