The Morning Calm
The Morning Calm
Acid-laced coffee. Tawdry imitation 60’s décor. Indian music drifts down from worn-out ceiling…
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Never on Sunday
Never on Sunday
The boy sat on the sand atop the low rocks, staring down into clear lapping water. He carefully…
Down In The Valley
Down In The Valley
How in hell he came to be lying in cloying dismal mud at the base of an extinct Hawaiian…
Paratrooper in Algiers
Paratrooper in Algiers
He said he’d been in Algeria. Algiers, Algeria. I’d asked him how a country could have…
Starlifters from Vietnam
Starlifters from Vietnam
I came back from Vietnam on a hard white gurney, flown in by one of those planes they…
The Treasure Pool
The Treasure Pool
The sun is perfect, as I stretch back on my chaise lounge and take in the colors generated by…
Five Card Stud
Five Card Stud
The game was five-card stud. One card dealt face down, then four more, one at a time, face up. …
The Spider
The Spider
They had left two days before. Lynn’s job was to care for the house while everyone was gone. It was…
Cotopaxi
Cotopaxi
The road from downtown Quito out and around to Cotopaxi, Ecuador’s highest peak, takes about an hour…
Egress
Egress
The decision was the fastest and most fateful he had ever made, but living with the result was going to…
Herschel
Herschel
The ground didn't seem wet at all from six feet higher up. But Tom wasn't that high up from it…