Since the days when he learned to walk and talk, Henry wanted to fly. Fuselages and wings were magnetic to his young eyes. Desire grew out of…
Emily resumed her walks in the park when the dog bites healed. She took her faux leather sandals along the shaded paths for the first…
Did I ever tell you that I used to know these two alcoholics that lived in Redding? Back when I was doing temp jobs in California. These two guys…
The man who had taken up unwelcome residence at my booth was arranged sloppily, one arm thrown over the back of the seat. His necktie lapped at the…
Most of us have forgotten the great changes that came about after the telegraph lines came to Mason. Wagons piled…
The pier runs out into the ocean and stops right where the boats come and go, come and go. When they built it, they knew exactly…
Squashed in his hand was a hollow chocolate Santa Claus. His fingers had melted through Saint Nick, sternum and spine pinched together, left leg…
The box was bigger than I was. When my father hauled it into my room, it sounded as heavy as lead when he thumped it down on…
Where the blight touches the land the people never leave. The roads to them are blocked and they become mice in the gullet of a snake…
The phone rings in the front office. Two weeks ago our receptionist had gotten her fill of Red Valley and moved out, so Ernie and I have…
