The Beautiful Struggle

Paul Dent loved Dukeport. He felt he was at a time in his life when he needed it, when he could be nowhere else. He…

At Stumpy’s

“There’s your muffin!” And she set the plate on the counter beside the register. No one would have been fooled into thinking it had been…

Big Heavy Love

Where Patrick Bowles lived alone was a tall, black, glass tower called Trident. He had a sleek and spare studio there with polished-concrete floors and white, empty, modern walls. He had an enormous bed for himself. It filled all of the space at one corner of the room in front of a long closet nook. A…

Funny to Hear from You

Patrick Bowles worked at a company called Innoventis. The name was a…

Kinky Cafe

Paul Dent lived half a block from a coffee shop called The Ooo-la-la that sold decent coffee but was known better for the fact that there…

Any Given Saturday Night

Emmitt was a shy and superstitious young man. So before he went out that Saturday night he had done two things to…

Kate in 8

Waves of Modern Thought

The world of Robert Rudkin was very small. The city of Dukeport whirled all around him but he had just the narrow…

Not a Bakery But…

The sign said it was a bakery but the things a person could buy there went way beyond confections and cakes. Actually, there…

Everything Underground

The subway in the city of Dukeport is not a wonder. Most of the stops are along the waterfront, servicing the harbor…