Remember the last time someone turned to you and said, “I totally love your name,” and how awkward it was to choose a reply? I mean, you could have just said “Thanks,” and been on your way, but it’s hard to take credit for something you had no say in. You know, unless you changed … Continue reading The Names We Bear
The idiot box sits, in an oaken cabinet, in the far corner of the spacious room, a testament to the generation of distance that placed it in such a precise spot. Opposite the behemoth sits a man of indeterminate age, in a worn leather reclining chair that has outlived the TV by several years. For … Continue reading Watching the Box
I tried to gain perspective As minimal as it was A viewpoint casually still Waiting for a script Followed by a palpable silence Inverted as it was Screened in by conjugates And words that defy description Caught up in the “might have beens” But that’s over now I tried to capture momentum Freeze framed in … Continue reading Those “Might Have Beens”
“I’m reading your book right now,” said a work colleague who I didn’t realize even knew about my first published novel. She even said it in passing, as if it was the most casual thing in the world. I smiled, and I’m still smiling thinking about the exchange. The conversation yielded the information that her … Continue reading Novel Reactions & the Surreality Of it All
We stood under the cascading flow of water arcing up from the hijacked hydrant, a bevy of hands diverting the flow so it could rain down on us. We stood there, the boys in white briefs, the girls in multicolored panties, our improvised bathing suits because there was never enough forewarning about when it would … Continue reading The Hijacked Hydrant (Summer of ’85)
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