Aug
22
Check out my contribution to Pure Slush’s anthology Marriage
187 writers get hitched! Pure Slush always get the best writers and the most interesting stories. I hope you’ll take a look. Get it here
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Oct
4
the daily eulogy
(originally posted 2/19/2019) I don’t think we pay enough attention when we’re hanging pictures. Sometimes we just throw them up with no reverence at all. Things that might be sitting there for ten or twenty years looking down on us. I don’t think we pay enough attention to the people in those pictures. People […]
Oct
3
it’s just a teddy bear
He won it for her at a county fair. Turns out when she was young she always believed she would meet her future husband by a tilt-a-whirl. To this day the smell of cotton candy turns her on. It had been their first date and ever since she had slept with the teddy bear every […]
Oct
2
I’m no Superman
(originally posted 6/6/2018) Perhaps Freud got it wrong. Of course, he’d never met Dustin. Neither have you but that’s about to change. Afterwards you might sit contemplating the id, the ego, the super ego and, perhaps, the alter ego. Out of nowhere evolution took a giant leap with Dustin. His musculature was unique. Improved. […]
Oct
1
Dear Mr. Vernon (from The Breakfast Club)
Dear Mr. Venon. We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you’re crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us: in the simplest terms, […]
Sep
30
the bigger man
I think it’s fair to say we’ve all been of two minds about something at one time or another. So it was with Dennis. Perhaps in a different way though. It started when he decided to do a load of laundry. It had piled up on his floor and he could no longer ignore it. […]