Faded Shades of Rainbow
A soft breeze rustled across deep green grass, perfectly cut to match its square interior. Sun settled down over small,…
Category: Fiction
43 Cars, 1 Long Day
Twice per year, for a period as short as a few hours and up to about a week or so,…
The Balloon Walkers, Master of the Backyard, and Pedagogue
He is now climbing the tree, tasting the sky, and now edging sideways out onto the slick rock, held up…
Dialing the 4400 (Parody of Adele’s song, Set Fire to the Rain)
USA Network had it all, the hottest shows And the summer rose, sizzled and burned. It was the hottest line-up…
Forgetting Him
Emperor Caligula declared war on Poseidon and ordered his soldiers to thrust their spears into random, threatening, foaming waves. I…
The Panda Complex
“When I first met Yaba, I was so nervous I threw up on a fern in her enclosure.” Norman Spitzer…
Grist
At 6:35 AM, on a Tuesday mid-July, Alberto Salazar woke up. It was not, however, a literal awakening, considering Salazar…
Lift-Off
Two flight attendants bobbed down the aisle with gyroscopic grace as our plane taxied off the Pearson runway toward a…
Riding in Mustangs
Rain spatters against my forehead so I yell at Chris to roll his window up. It’s so hot and humid…
A Death in the Family
My Mother once told me that all the stars in the night sky were the dead souls of all the…