Sitting in the back seat I watch my mother pull our green 56’ chevy up over a curb Hypnotique and menthols sting my tongue Embers flicker...

Sorry for ranting my best friend texts me. It’s the same phrase I sent her two nights ago. We always are sorry, apologetic for texting...

“Same shit, different day Frank,” Eddie said as he took a drag from his cigarette and passed it to me. I nodded in agreement, inhaling...

Her ship docked at the tiny outpost station. However, you wouldn't know that if you were looking out the window because the station was...

Every day the drunk lies at the cross-road Between the Wal-Mart and the Costco On the side of the Arizona road The sun is a cupped...

“Lenard,” I said. “Run me a bath.” I could have done it myself, but I was limp like a dead rabbit, you see. My lungs were cold and...

it had to be filled with water in the early years the ocean left its ridge marks on every bluff and reached into each valley with a...

“It’s okay! I’m right here!” Lynn says. Her five-year-old daughter June whimpers. June has float wings on, but she keeps eyeing the...

I invited my neighbor Miss T. out to dinner for her 100th birthday. “Anyplace you want to go,” I said. Tiny and trim, surely under a...

it had to be filled with water in the early years the ocean left its ridge marks on every bluff and reached into each valley with a...

I know life has ups and downs, Swings from high to low, but now… I feel stuck in limbo Hung in midair like a pendulum That has lost its...

My seat is taken and I stand in the doorway staring. I always sit in the same seat. I know she sees me looking at her but I don’t make...