Next time you're stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, imagine someone on the crowded street wants you dead.

Night vision goggles strip away depth perception, rendering reality in two dimensions.

As we talked, he revealed a beautiful smile. His eyes, not covered by sunglasses like the captain’s, were dark green. I was infatuated.

Make it stop, I thought. Please make it stop. But that made no difference.

It’s a matter of the flag being the symbol of a people conjoined in harmony. It doesn’t belong to a party or group or a president, but a people united under shared principles.

You pressed your head hard against my chest the way you always did when night terrors woke me.

A waste of time is hard to define.

My memories are aging as I am.

That moment in the spotlight eclipses the resolve.

You don’t forget a leader like Bill Searfus. And whenever I inspect tie-down chains, I see him vividly. That image of him wildly dancing.

Every one of us stood rigid with a fixed salute, never taking our eyes off the truck. Our brothers.

There are a lot of bad stories out there.

I’d die a thousand deaths but still wake up.

I had no other option than to be 'fine.' I knew he was right. But that didn’t give him the right to say it to me.

“Would you rather be pregnant alone or have the baby alone?” Ryan asks. I dig my pale white toes next to his in the sand.