Being Bold

My neighbor kid’s been helping me tie up some dead branches. Finished, I’m drinking a beer, he a passion-orange juice … More

It Was Something Important

A couple of years after Andrea’s father, someone I’d grown up with, died suddenly, her mother, whom I did not … More

We’re in a woeful state, down to the last generation: Z.I fear it might be they’re an omega of generations … More

Glenda: So quiet tonight, yeah, dear. Herb: All that screaming today. All the noise pau. Glenda: This neighborhood used to … More

Robert Morgado did pest control. His father had done pest control, and so had his grandfather. When his wife said “Nuff already, … More

She was having a hard time going to sleep, maybe fear of the dark and all those kinds of trauma … More

You know how Mark Twain says that quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world, how he’s done it … More

Man, I really hate this. So now I’m going to have the same problem. I want to write about my third year … More

The Terrible Twos? Hell. Shouldn’t this be Chapter 2 then, not Chapter 3? Curses. I’ll have to hammer that out come the final edit. … More

He had a baby once.He didn’t survive the pregnancy.Neither did it. Neither did she.A crisis back then. What to do, … More