Short Story

Jimmy is Dead In the back of the dimly lit pool hall, the jukebox was playing loudly.  Very loudly.  Playing to an…

Blackbeard Drank Cocoa Childhood Reflections To me, he stood six feet ten, fierce, unyielding. Curly, black hair…

The Last Crystalline Dragon Kryos stirred. He had never expected to wake from this sleep. It should have been…

This Great America The gate was closed and a chain was wrapped around the fence post but experience told me even…

The Ordeal Sitting in the damp, darkened room Saran shivered in the light grey shift dress.Her day had…

The Two Second Smile The Verbal Squatter: Thabo walked down the line of cars waiting at the traffic light,…

Rowina's Lover The moon, its bottom rim just touching the dark silhouette of a barren hill, was a gigantic…

What’s a Girl Gotta Do (With apologies to country singer Joe Nichols) The administrator of Cottonwood Assisted…

Emma May's Sandbox It was starting out as a perfect morning, at Emma May's house, but Mother Nature was about to…

A Dialogue with Change A smile in the darkness.“What is wrong with you?” I ask “How can you be so happy…

A Pain That Unites She was sitting on the sand on the beach and drawing pictures in the sand with a stick, she was…

Angel of Love A man sat on his balcony, his shoulders slumped and tears in his eyes. His life had come to a…

We Went Our Separate Ways The soft tones of Spandau Ballet came through the radio, and, the conversation having…

Kids Will be Kids Phone calls to the Mesa Verde Police Department were normally about a cat up a tree, so two…

Starlifters from Vietnam I came back from Vietnam on a hard white gurney, flown in by one of those planes they…