By the time I reach my brother’s apartment, the sun is already low, slanting across the row of houses. I park behind his truck. He opens the door before I knock, like he’s been listening for my foo…

“The British knew how to run a country,” the girl’s father says to the doctor. “Our railways are because of them, you know?” The doctor has put in two neat stitches, black nylon bunny ears sticking ou...

I was sitting on the bed in my hotel in Amsterdam when the fish commercial came on. Geena was in the bathroom. I had the TV on because I was nervous—she’d only been in there a minute, but it felt like...

I can’t say I’m all that surprised I ended up in Hell after I died, but things are really starting to look up. I admit that I had to fight through some pretty formidable foes with nothing more than a ...

Light my candles in a daze ‘cause I’ve found God. —Nirvana, “Lithium” The hardest part about being a ghost is getting over the sex, as in watching the living go at it. It’s ironic because when you …