In every family there is one central soul,the energetic heart that pumps life blood to all,the bond of it all…
Let’s Kill Lieutenant Chan
Everything she said could have, should have, bothered him, if he were normal. But it didn’t because he wasn’t normal at…
A Last Wave
Feel sorry for her? That’s a good way to ruin a teenager’s weekend.This is not the way, say, for an…
A Sleepless Night
He thought about how a bullet travels at 1700 miles per hour, so if you see it, it’s only for…
A Visiting
“Ay, it’s the cost of everything these days that drives me crazy. Nowadays I’m only rolling my own.” Chris could…
What’s Done
Pressing themselves, all of them, into permanent wallflowers, these young people gone flat at functions, standing still, eyes lasers on…
Surviving a Second Attempt
“Where’d he come from?” asked Stillman, bending down to see what if any damage had been done when he dropped…
The Final Movement
Our father says the sound is loud enough to wake the dead. The music is alive tonight in infinite weathered…
A Hired Hand
The blade was so sharp, Wang was tempted to run it against his thumb. Blood fascinated him. Even his own.…
Hardly Living
To be in peak health and die in your sleep, unaware of a painless passing, this is the way I…
Holy Night
It was madness to treat you like some character locked in a box, for all I knew, you suffering too…
I’m Listening Still
“I don’t see it that way,” you say, and I begin the wonder why.We sit cross legged on the floor…
“One of the Scams,” Episode 6 of my latest Lt. David Chan mystery, is now available on the Kindle Vella platform
Celebratory Beers
When is a beer not a celebratory beer? This is not a riddle. Every beer I drink with relatives and…
Science Suggests Spiders Dream
Like the intricate webs they conceive in waking life,spiders minds may spin cognitively complex dreams.If a spider does dream, of…
Close
We sit on the runway at O’Hare awaiting takeoff, Madison our destination. I always try to break the ice with…
Roll Call
Bespoke? Where are you, Bespoke? I see you there, Bespoke.For me personally, sorry to see you go, but custom says…
Our Fathers’ House
A vision, they pop up ahead of us on the horizon,these sheets of red flowers blowing, rippling waves,like huge blood…
Passing
It read, “The dead know nothing the living won’t find out sooner or later.”And you sure don’t envy them, she…
Some Legend
A revered professor. From our days of college pressures and living free, before the world you know tries its level…
Lanning Lee 