A House of Order
April 16, 2018[…] Virginia, and she had surprised Howard by agreeing easily to the long sabbatical from school and the city. As he plowed, planted, and harvested his land, turned his cattle out to feed on the […]
[…] Virginia, and she had surprised Howard by agreeing easily to the long sabbatical from school and the city. As he plowed, planted, and harvested his land, turned his cattle out to feed on the […]
[…] actually, which by the way, I would like to make a comment on the character of that city, which a whole lot of people don’t appreciate enough. . . .” “Hold up there, you […]
[…] two years ago, when the patriarch had stayed with them for a week and left cursing the city as “a piss hole in the snow!” David thought the description fit the old man’s homestead […]
[…] he keeps nodding, smiling, driving. That’s the main thing. And soon you’re an off-ramp, a town, a city past his destination. And you get better at it, better fast. Because the better you get, […]
[…] to stay in this ocean of arms, with Liliuokalanimoa petting my cheek with one finger. The Boulder City Elementary School gym had been imposingly gray in the dusk when we parked our car across […]
[…] April 1 was all the more remarkable. Overnight, a foot of wet snow was dumped on the city, and, as Monday morning dawned, airports, schools, and mass transit were socked in. It clung to […]
[…] odds with a provincially and religiously conservative administration. Taking advantage of a summer internship in New York City between my sophomore and junior years, I experienced for the first time the contagious energy of […]
[…] wall like a Pullman bed, so all the track had to be nailed down and the miniature city and surrounding countryside glued carefully in place. Therefore, although his required more work than the other […]
[…] in a gym. Against his better judgment he let her phone his stepbrother Bernie in Salt Lake City, whom he hadn’t seen in twenty years. Bernie, who was a total Mormon, was properly skeptical […]
[…] at first, as he slid open the nightstand drawer, removed his pistol, and drew back the sli de. She breathed in sharply when the sash rose in its frame. Before Luis could speak, he […]