My appointment with the consultant was his first of the day, 8am, in the third floor conference room, the one with the overactive thermostat that ...
Category Writing – Fiction
Love & Rockets at the Colonial Motor Lodge
“He said he would give me the moon,” Charlene said, pacing. She did the math: 52 weekends times 20 years, Cleveland to Fredericktown, 200 flat, ...
Caruso
Larry rolled down the window, letting the scent of cow manure and fertilizer sift into his Ford truck. It was Friday and the Allman Brothers were ...
(chemistry) water
“Swim, swim, swim!” Martha screamed. It was in that moment–in the breaths between each word Martha shouted–that Colleen realized that ...
Tintype
I had named my camera Polyphemus, after Homer’s Cyclops, for its one poked eye. In the early days of the war, Polyphemus and I took portraits of ...
After Lascaux (a mirror cinquain)
Sometimes I hear music Echoing recklessly In this woolly worn cave. It sings, Wordless. Sometimes Phrases sift soft around my feet Like sawdust ...
Crash
MacKenzie had wrapped a dead steward’s scarf around my head, covering my eyes. I had seen too much snow, too much everything. We thanked the dead ...
Lost and Found
Gina couldn’t remember where she put her keys. It was happening with greater frequency, this inability to remember things—names, faces, names of ...
At 26, Driving Home
I’m twenty-six again. I’m driving home. My life’s a musical and love’s a song. I capture pictures in my mind alone, How light is fading as the ...
The Days of Magic in Shadows
“People did impossible things in the shadows.” That’s how I tell the story. Valentine’s Day, 1955. It was a Monday and on the newsstands, Carl ...
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