September 9, 2018
Strange Rain
The memory returned with the speckled goose twenty yards long and a huge raised goose’s bill and face in profile, from the childhood nightmare in the…
September 8, 2018
A Further Conversation
This story is based on Egyptian mythology, Victorian fascination, and Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “Some Words with a Mummy” wherein his mummy…
September 6, 2018
My Shining Boy
On a cool breezy autumn night from the house down on the pristine white paved private drive came droves of teenage guests to a Saturday night…
September 4, 2018
Working the Night Shift
Burke hated his job. He was a security guard for Preston Hall, a private institution dedicated to promoting science education at the high school…
September 3, 2018
NEET, Part 1
I. He woke suddenly. He could hear his teeth rattling in his mouth and feel them banging against each other. He shivered and pulled the blankets up.…
September 2, 2018
Perfect Awareness
Measured in Earth years from 2018, I'm now ninety. I look back at the twenty-first century. I trace to where I lived. I recall the food, the games,…
September 1, 2018
Top Dog
Butch looked at the blank wall that offered him no answers. His buddy was in the next room, or the same building at least. They’d been split up…
August 30, 2018
Social Justice Warriors
The good professor eyes his neighbor’s dessert. He’d been quiet up to then, waiting for his order. He and his young wife are delighted when their…
August 29, 2018
Soul Box
Dead now. Dead today. Dead tomorrow. That’s what the widow told me about her husband, her palms flat on my desk wishing it to be true. I finished my…
August 29, 2018
Sugar-Plum Fearless
Sugar-Plum Fairy leaned in the shaded doorway of Blade Runner Apartments. He'd intended to get his cock out, then urinate, but he forgot the first…