A selection of fiction, essays, and reviews, and some reflections on the creative life.
(‘stravaig’, Scots, v.: to wander, roam, daunder, drift…)
Notes on a Bruise
I rocked from foot to foot in the middle of the Widows of Culloden collection…
Able and Baker
On May 28, 1959, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency launched a Jupiter Medium Range Ballistic Missile…
The Watermark
A year after my parents separated, I saw my father on the other side of a narrow street. He walked straight by without any gesture of greeting.