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  • Phone Runner

    The crowd-in-a-box jerked into silence when the shrill squeal pierced their ears. Read more

  • Welcome Back

    No. I’d been gone four days, strangers had been in to feed him, and he needed cream now.  Read more

  • Skipping Stones

    Bart Goins, ten-year-old, Davis Lake Rock skipping champion has been suspected of cheating. Read more

  • Reflection

    Susan would have been hot anywhere, anytime, wearing anything, with or without the fan. Read more

  • Bring it

    Is it terrible that I look for her obituary on a regular basis? Read more

  • Lucid Dreaming…with a few corrections

    Will stole their words and actions for his newest play. Bad juju. Bad, bad juju for Will.  Read more

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  • A Banksy-esk Inspiration

    There are too many imperfections that bleed over into ugly…

  • Classroom Fairytale

    I nodded my thanks and gave each kid a sticker of their choosing. I have ten thousand stickers, it’s the least I can do. 

  • adoxography

    Hope is what people “hang on to,” whatever that means, when they know they’ve lost but are stubborn and want to disappoint themselves.

  • Living or Waiting?

    I’m reading. Is that waiting to die or living?  

  • Former Student, Shawn…Cool Kid

    Shawn will always be one of my kids, even though he’s been a grown-assed man for at least thirty years now. I remember certain students for random reasons. Shawn was a twin, a brilliant one. Blonde, nice looking, a sweeter young man with manners you’d never meet. He was a creative writer, but he’d never…