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.…
July 25, 2018
Dummy’s Dummies, Part 2
XI. Vincent sits at his workbench, his three dummies arrayed before him. He looks even more wild-eyed than before. "So you think you can take over.…
July 24, 2018
A Correspondence with Allister X
Dear Famous Author, I recently (well not that recently) read your short work entitled “E**' S****” which was appended to your longer piece “S********…
July 23, 2018
Natural Writes
“You can’t write that, George.” George bit down on his lower lip as he held back his frustration. He stepped away from his computer for a moment,…