Todd pointed. “What’d you do to your lip?” Kelsea’s face flushed as she spun on her red high heels and raced down the hall. The next morning at 9 a.m. Todd’s supervisor called as he was working his way through monthly expense reports in his cubicle. “Could I see you in my office?” When Todd […]
From where he sat facing the bar Jeremy could see reflections in the long cracked mirror. He watched the people sitting behind him as Thorpe rose from his seat and began to sing the way he did some days. Some other days Thorpe just recited the lyrics like one of those long-gone North Beach poets […]
By the end of September only a few leaves on the mountain trees had changed. Deep orange, red and yellow hues excited Buck each year the seasons turned. You could count on plentiful harvest colors appearing as sure as any magic in life. But long walks in the woods with Petey had ended. Crows still […]
You think I’m kidding, don’t you, about psycho killer Pug Mahoney alive and unwell and running amok among us? Corbett finally lost it, right? Growing my hair and beard longer than a Viking berserker, unleashing my warped writer’s brain and announcing that the most unhinged character from my most recent published release, Paddy’s Day in […]
Gently opening the door just a crack, Stacy peeked into her teenage daughter’s bedroom. “Stacy means no harm,” the cartoon-style chatbot on the computer screen said to Stacy’s only child, 14-year-old Morgan. “Your ex-mother is just insecure.” Robotic and hypnotic, the avatar’s voice felt soothing even to Stacy, the way lowering your head underwater in […]
