Short Fiction and Poetry

The breeze carried a taste of prairie winter the first time Mark and Sofia passed the business with barred windows [...]

An old friend shines down on my shoulders soothing pecking light on my cheek warm kisses [...]

Drea tip-toed onto the overlook. The clouds moved like ghosts. She stared at the violent water of Dragon River [...]

I was once a damsel in a dress, a sparkle in an eye that never blinked, a master of incarcerating bitterness on the back of my tongue [...]

My roommate took off right before I lost my job at the pizza place. The only thing he left behind was a note [...]

Today was the day that she said Daddy, you won’t know the age that I die at [...]

When the derecho winds arrived Friday, they lifted the split-rail fences, tore up most of the barn roof, uprooted the vegetable garden [...]

You text me good morning at midnight. When I wake, I write all the ways to tear down the world with you [...]

but I can’t think about it now coz the sun is shining like a well-polished shoe and life assumes a different rhythm on the weekend [...]

Squiccus hums in low, rhythmic tones and the chipmunk’s breathing slows. With gnarled hands, Squiccus pets the disheveled fur [...]