August 6, 2018
Alcohol Drought
It's three o'clock in the afternoon; Linda is standing outside the red wooden cottage where John and company are inside sleeping, not having awoken…
August 4, 2018
A Visit from Stuntman Steve
Steve, a professional stuntman, and his manager Desmond were driving through the city in Desmond’s 2011 four-door-extended Jeep Wrangler en route to…
August 2, 2018
The Muse
Music: that's what this was all about. That's why I currently find myself staring blankly at nothing in particular on this dismal, gray, post-Soviet…
August 1, 2018
Dummy’s Dummies, Part 3
XIX. Vincent, appearing stressed out, stands on the sidewalk in front of an elementary school. Children swarm past him onto waiting buses. Colin…
July 31, 2018
I’m Certain the Sun Will Shine
I looked down at the old woman with her Einstein-like hair resting on the top half of the pillow, her wrinkled eyelids loosely closed in a deep and…
July 30, 2018
Twenty Years After
Thank goodness for name badges. Some of the people looked the same, maybe just a few furrows in the brow or a receding hairline being the difference…
July 29, 2018
Swimming in Mercury
The problem really started when Colliver conjured up not the fiction of the great dead author (of which he was a diffident fan), but the author…
July 28, 2018
The Confessional
“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent." --- H.P. Lovecraft “It is for the best that the scenes I am about to describe have faded…
July 26, 2018
The Most Beautiful Question in the World
I. In his eyes I see all the history of Asia, in the rise and fall of his chest, where his heart lies tucked safely under his bones, the multicolored…
July 25, 2018
Blues
Everywhere I go, I see blue. Everywhere I go, I hear blue. I see blue more than anything else. Blue is following me. Blue is the most popular color.…