Short Fiction and Poetry

She finds me on the precipice of sleep— her icy fingers grip my mind and melt it into pools of nightmares and try to drown me in them. [...]

Today, I found out that I'm on the short list to go on the expedition. I should be excited... perhaps I am, [...]

Out of the warmth and into the night where most would feel only fright I stroll my way [...]

In my nicotine visions, it’s the same amphetamine dream every time. I float up the exterior of Delmore’s last flophouse. [...]

Eight bars around the block—soon to be nine Abandoned Saturday morning—this street of mine [...]

An owl is perched on the roof of an SUV in the pre-school’s parking lot, a fat old owl  big as a turkey, at three in the afternoon just hanging out, looking about [...]

Hello. You’re a passenger, yes? I sensed it. The rattling train of human experience, I know it well. [...]

An Edison bulb is nostalgia, swinging like a disjointed eyeball. Slubbed grease toes, maintenance of viper pronged gastrointestinal gears. [...]

Judy and her mother, Darleen, lived in a trailer park with a revolving door of random men. Ever since Judy’s daddy left home [...]

The water moved so fast as it hurled itself  over the upper falls. The rapids were of which I had never seen.  The majestic power [...]