Yale Daily News

A baptismal font is not a font. This occurs to me as I take my place beside the pedestal. I run a finger along the […]

May 1, 2009

Gustav and Leon met at Falafel King. Gustav was a closet smoker, Leon a nude model. They came to tolerate these alter egos, each secretly […]

February 23, 2009

In the year with no summer, the native women take to their fields in the nude. The missionaries protest and the Christian women are appalled, […]

January 16, 2009

Cimone borrows a car for the drive to the airport, an old green Chevy that belongs to a friend, even though it has been more […]

November 17, 2008

Kate tells him that she wants a beer to bear her name so she might meet the lips of a thousand young men. Lev is […]

February 8, 2008

So it’s four hours to the border, then another three down to Ensenada, and freedom by sunrise. Right now, we’re just heading out of San […]

December 7, 2007

Kyle threw his basketball in the air; on its way down it killed Mrs. Bryant stone dead. It was a clean wholesome April day, and […]

November 2, 2007

Not only was Jose the youngest in the history of the village to have gone to America, he was also the first to come back. […]

April 2, 2007

Dear Roberto, I think you knew this was coming. Don’t act like you haven’t let me know things aren’t going well. Even now as I […]

February 12, 2007

Rain comes slowly to Waverly. Days pass without sunlight while puddles grow and swallow the streets. Boats can’t leave the harbor, so the downtown diners […]

December 8, 2006

Emily comes on a cloudless day, and her heart clenches on the stale-air plane with the vastness of it, and only a little panic. Flying […]

October 27, 2006