Skinsky in his backyard in June.
Skinsky in socks and shorts, aureolas flaring, squeaking across the grass to his trampoline and beginning a bounce. Skinsky working hard, curling his toes as he lands and gaining elevation. Skinsky at the height of the low branches on the big tree and rising. Skinsky landing, rebounding and flinging himself [...]

We didn’t believe when we first heard, because you know how church folks can gossip. Like the time the elders were convinced Sister Janice’s daughter had been turned into a lesbian when she began playing rugby in college. For weeks, we heard the grown folks whisper about how no girl should be playing football—it just [...]

In a wonderful world where grass sprouts and divided cells sing the words of the Elevator Blues, which unofficially goes, “Give a little piece of the pie, we would all love to be refined,” Aaron Veedon was popped out and turkey bastered to breathing.  His heart, the four-chambered rhythm machine already formed and months old, [...]

The town had grown too large, and so I decided to let some people go.
I spoke first to Mac Trueba, the founder of the town’s abstract realist photography collective. He was living with three friends and his wife in an apartment in the Colonia.
“San Expedito’s just grown too large, Mac,” I said. “We had the [...]