Monthly Archives: July 2006

Short Fiction: New England Primer

From the May 2002 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, when they still published fiction. Good fiction. I miss that.
This is one of the few short stories that I fell in love with immediately and still love. While I enjoy the wonders and banality of the human condition, I don’t consider myself a sentimental person; this [...]

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Animals abound

The past two weeks have been a little surprising regarding animal sightings. All photos courtesy of flickr.
Sighting #1
Driving to work means passing through the prairie preserve, aka former farm land. You can still see short stretches of trees in straight lines scattered around the preserve. It’s what remains of the natural borders farmers planted way [...]

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