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Deadly Adagio
Emily Radly chafes at being a tag-along spouse while her husband tries out a Foreign Service career in Dakar,…
Over Mount Fuji 1
Over Mount Fuji 1
February 9 —
All morning, heavy fog slowed the traffic from Manhattan to Boston and obscured…
Bus Stop – Van Vranken Avenue
Children wonder too why older people have no patience. I learned too cope with everyone; I smiled, and few smiled…
Criticality 10: A Pound of Blow, A Pump of Shotgun
Staines Warehouse District"It's refreshing to see that some of your workers - I'd imagine handlers, naked."…
Grandpa’s Legacy
Grandpa's Legacy
Adam Trexler, growing up in an urban neighborhood in the middle years of the 20th century, yearns…
A Retrospect in Death
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote: “After 60 years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that…
Criticality 9: Pleasurable Dreams and Sordid Realities
Jensen-Gyro HomeThe endless night when the sky wept to accompany the mourning below did little on an account of…
Wotan’s Dilemma
What would happen if you took the story used by Richard Wagner for his Ring Cycle of operas and moved it from the…
A Glimpse of The Dark Side…
What’s fiction for? Why do we read it? Or write it? Why do we love story-telling? For enjoyment, definitely. To…
Crescendo
One murdered woman. A missing child. The diabolic father who will do anything to get his son back. The female cop…
Brumbies
Brumbies
Louise couldn’t stay unhappy for long. Being out on a horse in the mountains made her heart swell with…
Happiness Should Be Fun
Happiness Should Be Fun
The issue of happiness is of considerable importance in today’s world – and one to which…
Lady Justice and the Lottery
CHAPTER 1
Seventy-two year old Earl Lassiter, sitting on the couch in front of the TV in the home of his seventy…
Field of Stones
As I stood there next to the stone as it was sitting on the platform and the sketcher was marking the areas all of…
The Greenlee Project – Excerpt
The Greenlee Project - Excerpt
The bus pulled away from the curb slowly, but the shift in gear caused such a…