The Man with the Umbrella Hats
You’d know my boyfriend Lex Eleven if you saw him. He struts around town in a miniskirt and black lipstick, like a prostitute with a penchant for…
The Hunt
The hard knock on my door stopped me from wallowing in my self-pity any longer. Joe Dexter, my long-lost friend from college, stood in the doorway of…
Silver Fork Diner
It was 4:26 PM. Rachel Holloway was sitting alone, at her table, at Silver Fork Diner. Ragged and peeling wallpaper surrounded the girl as she stared…
Wavelength, Part 2
III. A month after that, and I found myself in the heart of the spiritual state of Israel: in a little piazza surrounded by charming stone-built…
Terry’s Weekend, Part 2
Belmarsh Prison. Summer 2022. Terry V. Mandelson and Edward Raphael “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz are looking at 20-year bids, absent bad behavior or untimely…
A Cold Place
Platform heels strike out a slow, steady beat on a city sidewalk. Gold chains and platinum jewelry glow in the streetlights adorning a savage…
439 Potter Road
In the days of Delphi, when it was known that demons lurked in sulfurous caves and that fate was a force as natural and immutable as gravity, the…
Wavelength, Part 1
I. London, late summer, 1970: a grey Friday evening, overcast but not raining. September the 18th, I think it was: the very night Jimi Hendrix died.…
A Warm Place
I never could escape this place. After so many years, I stopped caring; unable to go forward, I just retreated into my books and online distractions.…
Progress, Part 3
VI. You wake up in a cold sweat. You’ve been having strange, vivid dreams for weeks now, always in some kind of forest, always involving a…
