Short Fiction and Poetry

Why do crows walk off asphalt when they can fly away from carrion and car to road’s edge? Is it just corvid attitude [...]

What at first appeared to be a thick green vine clinging to the trunk of the ancient tree past which she was walking [...]

When at first Rusty the Poodle got hit with a golf ball, everyone ran up wobbly to him [...]

Of all the characters that inhabit my childhood memories, few have reached the prominence of Klark Lionel Elyon Gold. He was mute [...]

Each stone of these stairs rasps like a regret, Like the memory of a child's flushed face Clouding with hurt, [...]

I cross the bridge and find you soaked in dew, overlooking the clearing. Doe eyes and roots crowning your antlers, you wait for me [...]

She’s trapped in a crush of clothes at the front of the thrift store -“JUST IN!”, like snippets of breaking news. [...]

My boyfriend Kyle and I were big fans of horror movies. So, when my parents went to Italy for two weeks, I was in my glory [...]

She had over-slept. There was no time to make her usual breakfast — she would be late for work [...]

The first time Bridget saw the flames flicker to life on the far dark shore of the lake that bordered her home, Hagan had already been [...]