The park was filled with the riotous joy of Fall’s bright colors. The morning sun, bright and clear, seemed to make the colors glow in neon clarity. The wind was still. The park silent. Serene. Tranquil. He sat on the park bench, legs crossed, the morning paper in his hands and in front of him. [...]
He really shouldn’t have uttered those words again! It was Thursday for God’s sake. Steak and onions day! Now he lies there dead, next to the fridge…a beached whale…a proud-looking Newbridge carving knife wedged into a steak-gorged belly like a flag of surrender. “Hey didn’t I do well!”…if knives could talk…”and you thought getting a [...]
Once upon a time there was a man whom everyone called ‘the fool’. Villagers from far and wide spoke of this man and their encounters with him and felt him even more foolish as he wandered aimlessly from one village to the next. He was known to arrive in a new village with a dance [...]
Sometimes the need to put words to paper, be it hard copy or virtual, is overwhelming. But sometimes life interferes with goals and they get pushed aside, sometimes even forgotten. There are times there are too many ideas to put to paper and no time; those too go into the filed but not forgotten pile. [...]
It was two in the morning. The streets were empty. Reflecting pools of light from the street lamps after a short summer rain. We–my partner and I–were in the Roush 427 Mustang, the windows down, the 435 horses rumbling in a barely restrained symphony under the hood. Coming out of the stereo speakers were the strange, [...]
