Seeking Second-Sight

Now he knew he’d see anything coming.Whatever it was, it couldn’t hide from or surprise him.He’d been taken unawares before, … More

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The Fittest So Far

I saw his claws. They resembled handswrapped around a sword’s handle too tightly,bloodless white in the fearful death-gripof his cautions … More

Some Neighbors

He walked our hill with a cane, his limp noticeable.My father asked him about it.He’d been disabled in combat in … More

Premonition

Bob’s alarm jerked him out of a bad dream. When he opened his eyes, he was saved from a grand … More

Introspection Dialogue

You look at me as if what you seeshould make you mean something moreto you than what you are. I … More

Wisconsin Romance

I know after the misty cranberry bogsof an early Minnesota morning, drivingeast at first light, Wisconsin’s waitingfor me, the way … More

The Flu

The pain splatters my skin like the firstmonster drops of rain before the torrents.It happened so fast, I thought my … More

The second chapter of my second memoir is now available on the Kindle Vella platform.

Doris

Adopted 15 months ago by completechance meeting. A Humane Society rescuefrom an abusive environment, she’s alwaysthere for me, my baby … More

Carpool

I’m not sure why you and I called it a carpool. It wasjust we two, and I always drove. There … More

Puzzling

She turns both the box cover and bottom over, taps themon the coffee table, asks me did I hide the … More

Soundproof

For the first two years in Madison, I live in Susan Bradford Hall. It’s on Greek Row. Once a dorm … More

New Ways To Love

Sarah’s grave looks new, well newer, and spreads outto a green grass field, the unfilled spaces for future use,to be … More

Covid, I tell you, too sick to write. But I think I’m back. This draft is called “King of the Lily Pond”

Ed reads the draft of his story. It’s about Joe, his oldest cousin, tall and broad, much more so than … More

Time Travel

To my dismay, I’ve found I have no copy of Jane Eyreat home. I’d wanted to reread it after all … More

Silent Fireworks

I tested positive Saturday morning, and have livedwith covid, the fever, the chills, and the body ache,since, but now, as … More

Covid, I tell you. Forgot to publish yesterday’s poem called “Out of Time”

It must be younever really caughton, weren’t smartenough to know,or weren’t thinkingabout how true lovemight grow when you could. Throughtime it … More

The Funeral

There is no one who knows a father’s kneebetter than a child who wraps his armsaround that knee and clings to it like … More

Fever

When you see your shadowfollowing you around, youmay imagine someoneworking for the FBI, CIA,or any of those surveillanceagencies has been … More