“Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Aug
8
Literary Cocktail Magazine is an eMagazine devoted to Creative Writing, Critical Thinking, Art, and Photography, so of course they would want to include a story about North Dakota. I hope you’ll give it a read, find out more info here. Hear the Youtube pitch here.
Sep
20
As you promised me that I was more than all the miles combinedYou must have had yourself a change of heart likeHalfway through the drive‘Cause your voice trailed off exactly as you passed my exit sign Kept on drivin’ straight and left our future to the right Now I am stuck between my anger and […]
Sep
19
(originally posted 3/15/2013) There was no ledge or spilled pills lying around. Not a good sign. I was called away from my twentieth attempt at writing a short story in the style of Kurt Vonnegut. Soon I would have enough material for a book entitled Short Stories Not Worthy of Kurt Vonnegut. I arrived […]
Sep
18
(from The Song Between Her Legs) I picture a dark raincloud coming over the mountain and looking at the parched plains lustily and saying “Where do you want it?” The defense attorney finished his arguments by saying “Don’t judge lest you yourself be judged.” The judge then said “Fine, but just so you know… […]
Sep
17
(from the book The Song Between Her Legs) While I appreciate the fact that the folks at Hallmark Cards went to the trouble of exhuming the two ladies working at the checkout, and will no doubt return them to their graves after the holiday rush is over, there to wait until next season’s shopping […]
Sep
16
(originally posted 4/26/2013) It was obviously uncomfortable. Well, perhaps before I say obviously I should give you some additional details. They were prisoners. Tied together with heavy rope. Their wrists and ankles bound tight and they both knew they were going nowhere. They had never met and both wondered what the other was doing […]
