Separate Ways
She took her half of the money, got a nice brownstone apartment. Third floor rear, doorman building. She already has the dog, so with a big puffy down coat and sunglasses almost as big, she just...
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The bone was human. A femur. Probably a woman’s. They found it just off the trail where they were picking up the rosaries and food packets the vigilantes had trashed and discarded–the vigilantes who...
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Monkey brains love puzzles, love problems to solve.Not enough gloves? Well sure, they are disposable and so many people need them now. Face masks? Same thing. Everybody needs them, and not enough to...
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Heroes With a tip of the hat to Mr. David Bowie The People Speak: We love our frontline workers. They are most beloved and honored coast to coast and around the world. We show our respect, and...
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I wrote this for a contest run by 53 Press. I don’t remember much about it except it had to be 53 words exactly, and I didn’t win. Name Game Rockwell Rhodes hated it when his cousin Patrice called him...
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Perplexed Vernon was just as surprised as anyone when he hauled off and clocked stupid Buddy right in the side of his stupid fat head. Buddy when over backwards with a crash, and Vernon busied himself...
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Everybody loved Uncle Zid. I know I sure did. He was hilarious, always with a joke. Like in the summer when he’d drive around in his old convertible dressed like Santa, blowing the horn and waving....
View ArticleCatching Up
Dear Grandfather Gerard, I hope you don’t mind me calling you that, but it’s how we referred to you all these years. We assumed you were dead; lost in the war with so many others. Your letter was full...
View ArticleDoorbell
She couldn’t tell, honestly couldn’t, if it was Carl or Bernice who came to the door and asked to borrow a cup of spit. They were spirit people (not nice to say ghost) and new to the neighborhood. She...
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When the money people ran out of what ever made computer chips smart somebody floated the idea of using recycled dead people instead. There were plenty of them around after the same rich people had...
View ArticleDead Roomba
Once in awhile we have something that our trash guy won’t take.Like the dead Roomba robot vacuum cleaner we put out on the curb.The heavy rechargeable battery make it an eco-recycle disaster.So...
View ArticleArizona
The bone was human. A femur. Probably a woman’s. They found it just off the trail where they were picking up the rosaries and food packets the vigilantes had trashed and discarded–the vigilantes who...
View ArticleMonkey Brain
Monkey brains love puzzles, love problems to solve.Not enough gloves? Well sure, they are disposable and so many people need them now. Face masks? Same thing. Everybody needs them, and not enough to...
View ArticleHeroes
Heroes With a tip of the hat to Mr. David Bowie The People Speak: We love our frontline workers. They are most beloved and honored coast to coast and around the world. We show our respect, and...
View ArticleName Game
I wrote this for a contest run by 53 Press. I don’t remember much about it except it had to be 53 words exactly, and I didn’t win. Name Game Rockwell Rhodes hated it when his cousin Patrice called him...
View ArticlePerplexed
Perplexed Vernon was just as surprised as anyone when he hauled off and clocked stupid Buddy right in the side of his stupid fat head. Buddy when over backwards with a crash, and Vernon busied himself...
View ArticleBucket Head Zid
Everybody loved Uncle Zid. I know I sure did. He was hilarious, always with a joke. Like in the summer when he’d drive around in his old convertible dressed like Santa, blowing the horn and waving....
View ArticleCatching Up
Dear Grandfather Gerard, I hope you don’t mind me calling you that, but it’s how we referred to you all these years. We assumed you were dead; lost in the war with so many others. Your letter was full...
View ArticleDoorbell
She couldn’t tell, honestly couldn’t, if it was Carl or Bernice who came to the door and asked to borrow a cup of spit. They were spirit people (not nice to say ghosts) and new to the neighborhood....
View ArticleReshuffle
When the money people ran out of what ever made computer chips smart somebody floated the idea of using recycled dead people instead. There were plenty of them around after the same rich people had...
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