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“Big Bends”
During a riverboat dinner cruise, a man proposes to his girlfriend. “Big Bends,” a short story now available. Stephen fidgets with the ring in his pocket and, mumbling, bungles fragments from his index card: Stephen, marry, me, Jo. Staring at the captain’s dining room, he wonders if it has a phone shaped like a whaleContinue reading ““Big Bends””
Cloudbreak Now Available
Cloudbreak: Stories now available. “A life inside yourself isn’t a life.” Seventeen stories laced with humor and heart crisscross America where ordinary men and women search for identity and order. A retired colonel investigates a cloaked figure at a naval station. Struggling with PTSD, a sister makes a request of her brother. After success atContinue reading “Cloudbreak Now Available”
“Lines in Spring”
A man repairs a friendship. “Lines in Spring,” a short story now on Substack. We had joked about who gets away with what and why, and those jokes turned serious but never vicious, and we hashed it out like the blood brothers we were, finding the good in each other—finding something more—while calling out the badContinue reading ““Lines in Spring””
A Fine Day Will Burn Through – Cover and Layout Preview for Patreon Members
Get a first gander at the cover for A Fine Day Will Burn Through: Stories by joining Patreon. Hollywood and Japan. The South and Midwest. Outer space and back home. Past and present. Myths and truths. Expectations and desires. Animals and humans. A storage locker and a softball game. A school play and an artContinue reading “A Fine Day Will Burn Through – Cover and Layout Preview for Patreon Members”
“Moonflowers” Now Available in Illuminations
If he could plant flowers on the moon for her, he would—lilacs in craters’ shadows, roses in grayscale cracks, and daisies (among her favorites) facing the long, rough edge fading into space, their yellows and oranges spiraling in front of endless black; and if he could spell her name on that same surface, he wouldContinue reading ““Moonflowers” Now Available in Illuminations”
T.S. Eliot
When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?” What will you answer? “We all dwell together To make money from each other”? or “This is a community”? T.S. Eliot