Down In The Valley
How in hell he came to be lying in cloying dismal mud at the base of an extinct Hawaiian volcano eluded Patton. Â He…
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The Morning Calm
Acid-laced coffee. Tawdry imitation 60’s dĂ©cor.  Indian music drifting down from worn out ceiling speakers. The…
Algiers
He said he’d been in Algeria. Algiers, Algeria. I’d asked him how a country could have a city named the same…
Daisy
I came back from Vietnam on a hard white gurney, flown in by one of those planes they called Starlifters at the…
The Treasure Pool
The sun is perfect, as I stretch back on my chaise lounge and take in the colors generated by its fall toward the…
The Spider
They had left two days before. Lynn’s job was to care for the house while everyone was gone. It was an easy task,…
Cotopaxi
The road from downtown Quito out and around to Cotopaxi, Ecuador’s highest peak, takes about an hour and a half to…
Egress
The decision was the fastest and most fateful he had ever made, but living with the result was going to be…
Never on Sunday
The boy sat on the sand atop the low rocks, staring down into clear lapping water. He carefully lowered his small…
Herschel
The ground didn't seem wet at all from six feet higher up. But Tom wasn't that high up from it any more