Death Erection
She turned away from me, “Why,” she said, her voice trembling.
I got angry at the sound of her emotion…
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I can be forgiven
In the spring poison grows under trees, and takes many shapes, imitating a vine, or hiding in ground cover. It can mimic the thorny raspberry, or an adolescent oak. It’s a joker; it’s a thief, in three words – all things human. Do not venture into the forests of the Ardennes, after a long winter […]
The End of the Circle
She turned to the gift. It sat on the stained laminate table where every night for a lifetime she’d set a light supper for family. Cold cuts, cheese, and sliced bread for sandwiches. A little mustard and mayo. Old Spice still lingered in the air and suddenly it was all around her: the past, coming […]
Spanish Wine (NSFW)
I had just pulled the cork on a bottle of Spanish wine. I poured two glasses as lightning struck a transformer and half the city went dark…
The healing power of tabloid journalism
(this is part five of a WIP with the working title of The Circle at the Top of the Hill) All her life Gram had followed the same morning routine and it always included a donut or some other sweet for breakfast. And then, when did it happen? Sometime in the nineteen seventies. Suddenly sugar […]
Win an autographed copy of Duke Miller’s LADWD TurboEd
Okay, it probably won’t be autographed by Duke himself. He lives on a mountain somewhere in Mexico where mail delivery is iffy and I live in the jiggly, wiggly hills over the San Andreas Fault in Northern California. But I may be able to forge his signature. And I will send it to you. […]
The Graviton Continues to Elude Us
I turned the rear-view mirror toward me…
