Were fleeting ghosts or if we should stay, I feel the weight of first love fray. I fear the feelings are bound to pass, Yet still I am, was, and stayed They seduce and they smile, they brood and they ...

Originally published in Synapse on October 22, 1998. Last week, the country confronted the death of Matthew Shepard, the University of Wyoming student killed in a vicious, antigay hate crime. This ...

Before I ever came near a stethoscope or a white coat, I understood the beauty of X-rays. The reasoning was simple, nearly elegant. If we could just take a picture of the inside, we would know what ...