Listen*: Transcript: After the third stroke, her words fell off to a few soft syllables. When I enter the room and enter those red-rimmed eyes that can’t help looking toward …
The Dynamizer and the Oscilloclast
Listen*: Transcript: in memory of Albert Abrams, an American quack 1. Here is the machine, the dynamizer, whose boxes, wires, and rheostats reveal the hidden names of pain. On the …
The Dust of the West
Listen*: Transcript: My blind father loves to stir the dust of the West and to kick the mare’s flanks. He cannot see the dazzling leather boots he wears are covered …
Complications
Listen*: Transcript: The last time Nate came in he smelled like Grace did when she worked door-to-door for Avon. He had the one pierced earring in, his beard was trimmed, …
Anatomy Lesson
Listen*: Transcript: When I move your body from its storage drawer, I brush my knuckles, Ernest, on your three-days growth of beard. Cheeks, wet with formaldehyde, prickle with cactus. My …
Finding a Voice
In a small off-Broadway theatre in NYC, it’s opening night for a new play, The Absolutely, Positively, Forget About it, Last Night at Von Dahm’s Sports Bar, Wing Hut and …