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…
Category: Fiction
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…
My Movie (Part 2)
After thirty straight minutes of Johnny begging, Daniel persuading, and me looking forlorn with puppy-dog eyes, we finally coerced their…
My Movie
I like to tell people I’m from California. There’s so much glitz and glitter associated with the place. People think…
My Chocolate Wife
Everyone laughed at me for becoming debilatingly obsessed with organizing my chocolate recipes. Until they saw the beauty that I…
How Was Your Day?
Jake got in a little after midnight, grinning and shaking his head. His wife, Linda, met him at the door…
3am
We hopped the rickety fence in front of the abandoned insane asylum to mark our territory just as…
Fantasy Football and the Mistake of Unity
A fantasy football decision, a choice made to appease the clamoring league of diehards that wanted a public execution –…