You’ve brought us to The Golden Palace Restaurant in order for you to assess the plausibility of bidding on a…
I Get Good Prices
It was a big moment in his life, when he first learned where he could buy a watch at a…
Never Fear
I’m at the age where nostalgia’s candleburns bright.The yearning for something from the pastcan beunbearable at times,the bursting chest and…
The Remnant Hours
Rising, late in the day, the hours so strange these days, it’s time to take off the coat of sleep…
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…
Last Night
After sunset last night, I sat in the darkin my garage, listening to the sound of carsrunning up and down…
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…
Oath
Okay, the next time I’ll have taken lessons,boned up lots on all your bout rules.Only the French could explain whythe…
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…
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…
Well Inked, Ink Well
[pluck] She loves me.[pluck] She loves me not.[pluck] She . . . loves . . . me.[pluck] WTF? This thing…
Abstract (Concrete Plagiarism)
Okay, I see the title of this one is Air Force Research Laboratory, Aero-Effects Laboratory optical metrology system and performance.…
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…
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…
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…
A Mechanical Alarm
That was not what I heard, not what I heard, the force of wind, not the tall trees creaking as…
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…
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…
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…
