This was the moment he chose to decide what kind of person he was going to be. He saw that apples were three for two dollars. The apples were red and he had recently eaten a crisp and tart red apple and was looking forward to eating these, so he selected three and put them…

Four old hands. Four with liver spots. Three with rings. Two with nail polish. Slowly sliding one hand over the other in his lap. Like lapping waves. Hand sandwiches. What do you call that game? Where you put your hand on someone else’s, and then they put their other hand on your hand which is…

There is a long line for the cashier at the grocery store. Only one aisle is open because it is not usually busy at this time. But today was unlike a usual day, thinks the cashier. A woman walks into the store and grabs a canister of prunes. She looks at the long line and…

A man opened his front door and reached for the mailbox that hung on the house. As he fished his hand around the empty box, he noticed a woman walking by across the street. She was carrying a hanging plant by the plastic hook of its container. Its long green tendrils dragged on the ground…

“We all agree it’s a joy to read.” The bookstore owner spoke loudly into the phone, but the store was small so we would have heard him even if he spoke quietly. “It leaves one with a sense of…I don’t want to say joy, but yes, joy.” “With a room full of words,” a man…

A man walked through the subway turnstile with a pizza box over his head. The smell of cheese and grease and bread spread onto the platform. It was near dinner time and everyone who walked by the man lifted their noses and licked their lips. He pretended not to notice because he knew many of…

The coffee cup was right on the edge of the table. From where I sat, in fact, it looked to be half on and half off, a true split fate. I had a good view through my kitchen window into my neighbor’s kitchen, and it was over my own cup that I noticed the precarious…