She looked for things — She looked for things. She looked for hours, days, sometimes weeks. She reported to others when she found them. The others would take care of them. Sometimes, the others would tell her to destroy what she had found. But she always found them. For thirty-seven years, she had looked for…

I tried to take rubbings of his tattoos, the hula girl, the palm trees, the sailing ship, the crossed cannons, the anchor. The hula girl danced for me when he flexed his forearm. He never told me where he’d got them. He was in the war when he was eighteen…

Erased by an impetuous sea, Jealous, I think, of my temerity in leaving behind an imprint of me Stone fabric, cold, incurvated; A chase, the sun, a hand, Symbols, signs, epitaphs that cry I was here, remember me The wind, the stars, the sea, Inked on the space that surrounds me; Permanence…

Lusting for the garden of desire — When the magic dies and the skin of the fruit withers and curls when one face looks like another and you stop calling Her your lover when you look for answers but your lips can’t voice the questions and the one you loved leaves you to fight yourself without Her and you wander lost in…

I always wanted to do two things — About Me 1 There are two sides to every one of us, the truth and the untruth. When I write, I rip my heart out and throw it on the page for everyone to see. I am as honest as I can be when I write. My truth is what I write. …

A novel excerpt — They say you don’t hear the bullet that kills you. How could anyone know that? Because, they also say, bullets move faster than the speed of sound. By the time you hear the sound of the bullet in your back, you’re dead. What if you’re only wounded; you’d hear that bullet, wouldn’t you? Well…

She’s my baby and she’s perfect — Admit it, you love to edit, don’t you? I see you now as you read through your printed manuscript, coffee cup in one hand, yummy croissant in the other, eyes whizzing left to right as you enter the world of magic you pulled from your storyteller’s mind. Raindrops catch your…