The Blind Date
Elise went on a blind date with a seeing eye dog. A service dog as you were supposed to call them these days. Her friend Sunny set her up. Sunny, …
Dialogues With The Devil: An Interview
To be continued….
Bone To Pick: A Speculative Fiction
Kids. Dammit. These days. They give you hell about everything that ever was. But my son’s in his mid-twenties, my daughter is old enough to buy cigarettes if anyone still …
The Man On The Crane
I was still living at home when my parents joined The Cage Bird Society. I was 25 and was finishing my associate’s degree at the community college, hoping to start …
Only Child
Today we put my older brother’s desk at the curb. My older half-brother. He died in 2016. As far as I know, the desk was the last object of his …
Lucky Number (Reprise)
Marilyn saw just the second living number she had ever met. It was the number 81. It wasn’t a week after she went home with her lucky number, the number …
The Lucky Number
Marilyn met her lucky number in a bar. It was the number 23. And though she had never met a number in the flesh, it did not surprise her that …
Cardinal
She gently placed the dying cardinal, wrapped in a soft rag, in the empty cat food box to take it outside. To end its suffering with the rat trap leftover …