[ Short Stories ]
The sophisticated lady sees the small helpless child contained in a steel cylinder. The child’s anxious upturned face is …
Before the game I asked my Girl to stop cheering for Doofus Danny, the roided out linebacker all the …
Janice learned early in her journalism career–when she still had a career, or access to that grand ladder of …
Leonard and I had laughed hard first, then with trepidation, when Caroline, at five years old and in …
Now, with your temporary elopement drawing to an end, every minute spent together was, for both of you, “worth …
1793The hickories and black gums done been naked a piece, and Christmas come and went two months past. …
Must be sixteen or older and show valid identificationI don’t personally have a problem with younger boys, but rules …
Kim is curled up in her favourite wingback chair, wrapped in the crocheted blanket her mother made for her …
In seventh grade, the year President Ford pardoned Nixon, Vinny and Lou asked me for help. A request …
Nick Flowers was a fifty something loner, a dreamer who slogged through life with a Tom Waitt’s song in …
The AC for the Judicial Annex to the Proudie County Hall and Public Records Building was on the fritz. …
There are always leaks. Sometimes during the early morning, Patrice’s skin seeps through every pore, even before Jacques …
He climbed the steps of a multicolored storybook Victorian house and shuddered. David Benson was worried about how …
Which of the torchless roads calls his name? The Emperor's head of trivia announces the death of choice.
BEFOREI was the one they called to the morgue to identify Davis. My phone rang just as I was stepping out of lecture hall.
He thought he knew these people. Through the lens of his cracked shield needing a wash to better shine …
“It’s a doctor’s appointment,” I speak loudly to make sure my colleague hears me on the speaker because traffic’s …