Short Fiction and Poetry

Unfortunately right out of the gate I have to tell you that I'm a disabled person If I listed all the things that are wrong [...]

A telegram arrived stating my cousin, Virginia, was dead. Be on the 8:00 p.m. train to Wichita. Marshall Adams would meet me [...]

Still dawn, heading southeast Out of Key Largo’s mangroves. Watch your I-phone’s compass move between 90 degrees to 120 [...]

red roofs lichen covered chimneys like sentries make a nonsense of perspective [..]

The Appalachian Trail ran 71 miles through the Great Smoky Mountains. After trekking the first mile, the Huxley family stopped [...]

Before the cockerel’s dawn call, Adeen counted ten blind steps, found the gate post with an outstretched hand, and turned right [...]

I watch a woman bend over double. She buries her head in the lowest drawer, her rear cresting over her shoulders. She thumps the wood [...]

There is nothing quite like hurling yourself into a mass of people who are knowingly about to push back. Everyone is running in circles[...]

“Rules are meant to be broken.” I should have put up more of an argument when Calder suggested we ignore the signs. [...]

It's not as easy as just getting out of bed in the morning without any thought. It takes a lot of thought. And discipline. [...]