A Beleaguered Search
I hardly knew my old friends; nevertheless, when they said they were coming I felt obliged, from the same sense…
Category: Fiction
The Ploughman
Hoof beats echoed through the gentle rain and brought the ploughman to his senses. He sighed and let the soil…
Little Miss Perfidious and the Sad, Old, Pervert Hiding in the Corner
I sometimes forget my true love is the contents of the bottle, not those who pour it. But it is…
Waiting
I was tried. I was sentenced. A charge of murder had been brought against me. The Dueling Laws had, unknown…
Fiction: The Rib Children
It waits in the darkness. Looking on with hungry-greedy eyes, tasting the air with a thick, grey tongue. It is…
Fiction: Sand Virgins
A droning sun pressed against the condo window as I lay in bed listening to children screaming in the morning…
Fiction: A Chance Encounter
At 4:15 a.m., the New Orleans−bound passenger train made its scheduled stop at Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where I disembarked, along with…
A Ghostly Beat
I was sitting on the toilet in one of my favourite watering holes in town when I heard someone’s ring…
The Voodoo Man at the Mainline Cafe
I was twelve the first time my dad took me to see the Voodoo Man. He wasn’t a voodoo man…
Fiction: Carly Couture’s Fun Life
Bread Chapter Carly Couture was born to the Jim and Margie Couture in 1961 in Russelsburg, Tennessee. They were not…