Halloween 2021 — There are a few basic rules to life: Eat dinner before dessert to keep your Momma happy, floss if you want to keep your teeth, and never, and I do mean never, try to steal from a pumpkin in a cemetery. “Come on man!” Ted said. He was in his…

Poetry — October has rolled in, giving us that good weather for that old fuzzy blanket we love so much, kissing and cuddling as the nights get a little colder Swing swing as the warm days turn a little cooler and the nights help us cuddle a little closer, watching Autumn write…

Fiction — “It’s the damnedest thing,” I said. “So, you didn’t send it?” “How would I have sent it? You said it didn’t have a stamp or return address or nothing?” Lillith’s voice said across the receiver. She was getting irritated. “No, you’re right. It just feels off somehow,” I said. “Well…

Poetry — Let’s cuddle up close on the old porch swing, watching lightning bugs write little love notes on the night sky just above the field of wildflowers Tucking little kisses in the swing swing motion of our little moment, hugged up close and melting together Lay your head on my chest…

Short Fiction — A wolf doesn’t have to eat you for it to swallow you whole. That’s what I learned in the Summer of 1980. I was about to meet the man who called himself Marigold. It was just after Mount St. Helen blew her top and the world wobbled a little differently…

Poem — Hi beautiful, I whisper, kissing you as you sleep in just a little I set a big cup of coffee on the table beside you, grinning your favorite lopsided grin as I set a little love note beside it Let’s cuddle up close like it’s Fall already, kissing and cuddling and wrapping…

Fiction — I was just a girl in the late Summer of 1944. …

Fiction — The letter came in an envelope more fit for a theater than the shit heap storage rental property it came from. Jason had just been fired from his fifth job this year when it showed up. He had applied to well over seventy-two jobs and been on at least half…

Poem — Let’s write little love notes with French fries and milkshakes, hitting pause to celebrate our little moments that mean so much Little love notes tucked in shy smiles and lopsided grins, little peeks, little kisses, and little cuddles, just a little of you and a little of me Your eyes…