The Remnant Hours

Rising, late in the day, the hours so strange these days, it’s time to take off the coat of sleep … More

Including Plagiarized Passages on Sections of Skin

to the reticular dermisshow a cystic cavitylined by attenuated squamous epithelium.A prominent granular layer is presentwith overlying compact, lamellated corneocytes.The … More

Last Night

After sunset last night, I sat in the darkin my garage, listening to the sound of carsrunning up and down … More

A Month of Sundays

It’s what’s meant to be a long time.A month of Sundays does not exist,unless you’re retired,in which case it’s more … More

Oath

Okay, the next time I’ll have taken lessons,boned up lots on all your bout rules.Only the French could explain whythe … More

Today

When your legs moved like wheels,the pounding exhilarating,arms pumping, well-oiled pistons,remember the more and more of a young blood rush. Such … More

Under the Golden Arches

Always a favorite of minethat last meal with youwriting about it repeatedlyhow we dined at McDonald’sFilet-o-Fish and friesthe grandest of … More

Well Inked, Ink Well

[pluck] She loves me.[pluck] She loves me not.[pluck] She . . . loves . . . me.[pluck] WTF? This thing … More

Abstract (Concrete Plagiarism)

Okay, I see the title of this one is Air Force Research Laboratory, Aero-Effects Laboratory optical metrology system and performance. … More

The 15th Episode of My Hawai‘i-Based Crime Story Is Now on Amazon’s Kindle Vella Platform

Old Folks Are Cautious

You tell me to go out, but I don’t want to die.You say it’s really so much better, it’s getting … More

One Last Act of Love

For the sake of this loved onewe know it must be done,all we singlular fossils of the future,all of us … More

I’m Not Bright

I’m watching TV and I hear the word “enigma.”I have no idea what that means.My dog asks, “Why the puzzled … More

A Mechanical Alarm

That was not what I heard, not what I heard, the force of wind, not the tall trees creaking as … More

A Meal with You

Always my favorite, reliving this, under the Golden Arches, every single Filet-o-Fish, no, really, if you could have been here … More

Would I Watch with Her?

She wanted a big-screen TV mounted on the wall opposite her bed.“I’m going to watch my soaps,” she said, “and … More

Far To Go

Kidnapped and blindfolded, I’m dumped in an unknown part of town.Sitting on the asphalt, I remember it’s Christmas Eve and … More

Tongue

Each time I speak, every utterance, albeit nearly imperceptibly,the voices of my ancestors equally sound on my tongue,treading my thoughtful … More

Nantucket

There once was a bard from Hawai‘iWho penned little poems as a hobbyFrom the time he learned lettersHe got better … More

On the Clock

She tells me she has never been late for an event in her life. I examine my watch. It is … More