Please Save Me From My Family
“This isn’t how things are supposed to work. There’re rules and there’s order. When you circumvent the order, chaos ensues.”..
Fiction
Light on the River
They met at the gym at eight, huddling beneath umbrellas in a chilly rain. The doors were locked. The bus was late. It came at 8:30, a..
Music Box
“They say that just beyond your sight, where the nocturne mist settles against the cooling earth, is a city…” She said through..
Lil’ Red
Lil’ Red’s body rests beneath the Cross River, his stomach transformed into a cavernous cavity by greedy wolves who live nearby...
What They Give Our Daughters
When she was a girl, adults said, “she’s gon’ be a heartbreaker.” She got her body early, carried her weight evenly distributed..
At Last, A Fun Day At Work
Just before I went home the other night, my boss informed me that a candidate would be coming by the store to do a press event. According..
The Good Life
WE WERE MEETING a lady at a home in Dix Hills. She was buying five or six pieces of good-name furniture from a family who had to sell..
Mexican Bulldozer Radio
We could hear the Mexican radio through the floor above us. Laura and I lived in a basement apartment beneath her boss’s house. Aside..
Neighbors
I suppose I should tell you about the Hobermans. Not ’cause I really want to, you know, but ’cause I figure it’s what..
Coming Soon To A Phone Near You
“Hello?” “Good evening, is Emma Smith available?” “Speaking, and this is…?” “Hello Emma, I’m with Johnson And Associates...
