Queen’s Park

I’m sitting by myself in a rear booth next to a pool table in O’Malley’s on Kilburn High Road. Taking in the calm before the storm, watching football…


Trial

We had a friend who was on trial for rape. In the papers, it was reported as a consensual encounter that turned sour. Both drunk, after a party. His…


The Fed: A Musical

He is the heir to a cotton magnate, the son of an optic surgeon and a Southern belle. A man with broad shoulders, stout posture and well-groomed…


Hand-Cut Tinder

I have this picture of Lisa I like to look at. We shot a lot of footage, but this one picture of her on all fours in this teddy stands out. She's…


Indianapolis

Each day was better than the next. Mornings were a vicious struggle to get out of bed and then a miserable death march to the office to face the…


Limp Dicks and Other Reasons Why My Ex-Lover is a Dick, Part 1

I. We never text or call because he blocked my phone number. We don’t Facebook because he blocked every one of my FB accounts that he knows about.…


Whaler’s Cove

“It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream---making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that…


The Icehouse

There are men who can kill without thinking. I'm not one of them. I have always had to think a great deal about it. I can say he looked like a man:…


How to Evangelize (Masculine Catholic Edition)

Synopsis: John and Aaron were merely having candid conversation over strong drink. John: I’m the kind of Catholic who likes a…


Business as Usual

Owen sat at his computer desk in a room full of people he didn't know. A master at typing code, his fingers danced to the punk music piping through…