What Does it Take for a Heart to Stop? On December 18, 2010, my brother died of a cardiac arrest inside Mirdif City Center, a mall in the de

Two weeks before Thanksgiving, she’s obsessing about who’s coming, what they’re bringing. Irritated that they haven’t gotten back to her....

When our third child was born in 2004 we decided that I would become a stay-at-home mom. That lasted about two days. Having studied classica

Lately, your brain’s been fogged-in. Could be the medication or the accumulated hours of a life spent, but the only thing you’re sure about.

I was stepping into a role I swore I’d never take on, already gaining momentum toward the terrible goal, getting well down the rabbit hole..

I like to think the five of us drove to the 7 Floors of Hell together, by which I mean J. drove her father’s car and I sat on the passenger

Let me back up. Was I using a computer calendar ten years ago? Or was I still on Filofax? What a bizarre word, Filofax. A word that might as

Cole Closser is a graduate of The Center for Cartoon Studies and author of the graphic novels Little Tommy Lost and Black Rat.

As I stood waiting in line with a giant group of strangers, my heart felt like it was going to burst out of my chest...

October 22, 2010 Somewhere over the Atlantic, the lights dim, and most of the cabin doses...