The dress I end up wearing to Homecoming is scratchy against my body; also, it makes me look as if I have no chest at all. It is...

"On Saturday, he is gone. Ever since his mother died, Stanley goes once a week to visit his father at his farm in northern Ohio and stays...

Everything in this hospital room is right. No. Not right. White. The sheets, the walls, the ceiling. Even the light coming in through the...

Annie's eyes: rimmed in black, shadowed with hues of blue and purple. Bright green flecked with brown. They glow in the dark. If Annie...

2 When I was a teenager, I had many female friends who complained constantly about their mothers with ferocious intensity, about actions...

1 Lavender. It was a lavender robe with tiny blue and pink petals. Not silky, as the flowers would suggest, but rough cotton, plain,...

The main problem was that Sheila didn’t remember the rules, it had been so long since she’d played, and that was with her ex-husband whom...

At the Halloween party itself, a large congregation in a huge, empty rehearsal space normally used for dance classes, Violet's Mata Hari...

Jude proudly wears her Pussy Hat though over a year has passed (!) and she is not marching this afternoon but striding down 7th Avenue on...

While he is telling me that we are breaking up, Mark is wearing a yellow plaid shirt that I haven’t seen before. Usually it's a white...

I am no expert on Enrique Iglesias music videos, but based on the three that are in constant rotation at the treadmills of the rocking...

I know that Michelle has an irrational fear of houses that look like faces; she knows that I have a phobia of peanut butter getting stuck...

Michelle announces, “I had the weirdest dream last night.” I finally take a sip of my coffee now lukewarm; it tastes like dread. The...

My gym has not changed its rotation of music videos since 2008, so at the New York Sports Club in West Harlem Lady Gaga continues to hold...

When I graduated from college, my mom gave me bookends in the shapes of globes, with the inspiring instruction to fill the space between...

“Kamikaze!” I blurted out just before our first kiss, suddenly remembering the name of the German Shepherd who had bitten me twenty years...

"The lighting in this bar is dim enough, and the frozen cosmopolitans cheap enough, that everybody here flirts with the screens of their...

"While Ginny roots around in her refrigerator, I try and figure out which sort of Betty will turn up at the door: a flirty Betty Boop, a...

"While we were sipping our cocktails, a group of young bikini bottom-clad Parisians suddenly wandered in from the pool party next door,...