She turned to me with her fiery eyes, and the chandeliers above us swayed in the moonlight. I was holding onto a long steel flashlight with the setting turned to ‘dim’. In my other hand, I was holding a crumpled-up brochure for next week’s advertised activities and events. In the background were the sounds of…

I moved from the basement to the dining room and sat there alone at the long table. It was set for six people and none of the placings or decoration had been moved or even touched.  I brought my elbows onto the table and brought my hands together, clasped together, precious fingers interlocking. I brought…

A mighty man lived inside a toy box, and he was forced to stay inside this fierce plastic toy box from the summer of his freshman year until the spring of his sophomore year. It was much too long a time to be crammed inside such a confined space without any food, water, or company. …

And if a colorful ware she’ll wear, And if I paint a terrible picture, oh me mine, And I weave special wonders for your entrails, oh me mine, Then I will cast away all courage, O Divine, From the banks of the River Jordan to the colors of the deep sea, The free green spaces.…

A word to the wise: a barbershop quartet is only as strong as its weakest link.  Melvin had been dealing with a raspy voice the whole second half of the ‘Pinstripes and Blue Buckles’ Midwest Circuit. He complained that it was because he was getting older, but we all knew the real reason: he had…

He was starving for attention, and still he was getting none of it. He had met with his jockey of a brother two hours previously at La Luna on 24th, and his jockey of a brother had explained to him how he would “not fund your gambling and alcohol addictions anymore”. He heard his jockey…

Oct. 6, 2022- I live in a ten-storey mansion in Oregon with my great aunt Nattie, my sister Eloise, her husband Judas, and our housemate Boris. We have two dachshunds named Willy and Wonka, and our roommate Boris has a black cat with a missing ear, and the black cat’s name is Elmo. Coincidentally, Boris…