I went to the little boy’s funeral. But I didn’t join the crowd. I saw his young mother, standing there, hunched and broken, and I couldn’t bear to face her. It wasn’t just that I’d […]
Category: Fiction
(Fiction) Permission to do the right thing
Hours passed, and Xana realized neither of them had bothered to turn on the light even as the penthouse grew dark. And Ian hadn’t moved or bothered to go to the bathroom. He just sat […]
(Fiction) Storybook Epic Fail
For eight and a half heady weeks, Kell worked as a sales rep for a liquor distributor, which was arguably the best job she ever had and probably ever could have. It was definitely the […]
The old ones are patient, and not so easily fooled. After the death of Solomon, wisest of rulers, the kingdom of the Hebrews was distributed equitably among his heirs, who distrusted each other as mightily […]
(Fiction) Face Like a Bat
My house, barely more than a hovel, sat on the south side of a green pillow of a hill, between a pair of very old oaks. My neighbors were terribly suspicious at first, and rightly […]
(Fiction) That’s When I Saw the Stag
in this selection, the narrator is an 8-year-old boy The day Mr. A. Tranjay came was the same day I saw the stag. That’s what they’re called. I looked it up. A male deer with […]
(Fiction) Like Magic
“Look at this,” Hammond nodded down the road from where we were parked. A vintage black Jaguar purred as it rolled to a stop in front of the bistro down the street. From our vantage, […]
