Short Story
A Matter of Power
“All I know is Derek is my friend. I don’t see any reason why I should take his relationship for anything but legitimate. He and Celia are engaged after all.” Stewart Crumley had been having a good time. He and his wife, Jacqueline, were sitting in the arbor of their friends Miles Cartwright and […]
Rose
Do you ever look at your own lips? I’m looking at your lips. I want your lips back in my life.
Don Coyote’s dog
Freedom Sancho, is the ability to hope for something better … no it’s not. That is habit.
Intimacy
Intimacy Since our leader has forbidden us to use our flashlights, I can’t see, except as vague shadows, the people ahead of me marching in single file, and can’t tell, in this group of strangers, if anyone else but me is veering crazily through the dunes like a drunk. I only know it’s hard […]
In the Land of Milk and Honey
Originally published in Four Chambers Press, Issue 2 (Print)
Seven Clowns Before the Explosion
This is what it is all about, he knows: improbability. It is the joke that this whole circus is built around: a tiger, an elephant, a hot air balloon, right here in Des Moines or Indianapolis or Altoona. Seven clowns and a monkey piling out of a car, one after the other in a tangle of funny shoes and makeup and hobo clothes, and just when you think there surely couldn’t be more room in that car, here comes another one.
Session One Hundred Two – Thursday
Have Cassie and Gwen made any progress or has she slipped back into her old ways?
Session One Hundred One – Tuesday
Therapy for a sort of infidelity…. What is cheating and can Cassie heal from letting go?
Mirror, Mirror
”Dear magic mirror,” Cruelty said, gazing upon her own reflection. ”Who might be the most radiant beauty of them all?” The magic mirror spoke in a voice, most harsh and foul. ”Your beauty is beyond compare, but your heart is blacker than tarry night: you stole all the world’s beauty. Now there are no […]