The Ballad of Tom Morrow
Tom Morrow robbed bootleggers, but they say he never touched a drop. He’s a legend ’round these parts. Back in those days, they said the bootleggers owned the politicians or …
The President Looks At Himself In The Mirror
And for a moment, he wasn’t sure who he saw staring back at him. He stood over the guilded sink, looked in the mirror, clear and smooth as glass. A …
Dream Tyger
“[What]… Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” (Blake) “Never can my dreams engender the wild beast I long for.” (Borges) So my wife and I agreed to take on a pet …
Necessary Distance
When her father shot off into heaven in a silver spaceship – to find a new home for humanity among the stars – she was not there. She was not …
The President Dreams Of Waking In The White House Just Before He Woke In The White House
The President woke in the White House from a dream that the leaves of one of the large trees in the lawn fell off in the night. In the dream, …
This Is Our Room
Our bed is warm, dark, and quiet – a womb. Some first rays of violet light peek through the blinds. This is our room in the morning. This is sacred …
The Fiction Writer Decides To Become A Supreme Fiction
And writing is ultimately about making decisions – though she wasn’t entirely sure what a supreme fiction was (Poetry is the supreme fiction madame – Stevens). However, she felt she …
The Big Game
Before the war began, it seemed like it had been coming for ages. But once it started, we soon realized it had always been here, and we couldn’t remember a …
Wildfires
Last year, around the election, the trees caught fire up north in our state. There was a drought and a heatwave, it was 70 degrees in November. Good people stepped …
Sipping Whiskey
“…the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and of death.” I avoid Cormac McCarthy. Not only does …