Aaron Smith

My father shot the neighbors’   dog, and their little girl still plays in front of his   house in the road, cars swerve when they see her   around the blind curve. My father wants to tell her   to be careful, but he’s the ...

James Schuyler thought to call his book The Crystal Lithium when he was my age without knowing he was going to die, or knowing as much as he could because death was still far away—the way I know I’m going to die. I’m talking too much about my mother’s cancer, her ...

I worked in an office where we hired a good-looking man. It paid off in the hot tub at the office retreat. What’s on the inside might get you a job unless someone who is pretty is pretty on the inside. I follow too many studs on Instagram, guys flexing with coffee cups in the ...