A retired English teacher learns of a rumour about two missing high school students and sets out to solve the fifty year old puzzle.
The Bel Air inside the Bog
Category: Short Stories
The Last Caller
Hard-living Jack Stone is celebrating another year of cheating death, but his New Year’s Eve is interrupted by a most unexpected visitor.
Old Man at the Cafe
An old man sits at a cafe never touching his beer. An American sits down next to him. They observe each other, believing themselves superior.
El Salvador
When Bobby was twenty-one and newly arrived in America, he met a girl from El Salvador.
Mind Shaft
A young woman and a retired gold miner enter a treacherous gold mine, and end up trapped with the remains and artifacts of ancient people.
Ababeel
I was here in the spirit when prayers ignited hope and optimism within me that my sister was performing Hajj, not mockery.
More Bullfrog Than Prophet
A college instructor, in town for a seminar at the university, decides to visit his friend, to discover that he had died the week before.
The Rising
A little story about a couple of pals.
The Line in the Lake
Two strangers find themselves on opposite sides of an invisible line which unexpectedly guides them to a fortuitous future reunion.
The Marionettist
When playing with dolls gets serious.
Deja Vieux
Martin rescues his mother from her fake armed robberies of bars, while facing down his delusions of huge black crows with metallic talons.
Bootsy
Bootsy is about a whimsical cat who can predict the future, often with disturbing conclusions. Based on true events.
A Lover’s Vengeance
A sequel to ‘The Devil Made us do it,’ published in Literary Heist. This pirate tale takes place about 75 years later.
Sanctuary
CCTV cameras were in Wren’s lapartment, one of hundreds observing the brain injured residents of the Michigan Semi-Independent Living Center.
The Cage
Two men in cages discuss the same conversation they’ve had for years while recognizing nothing will change for them. They are powerless.
Shade Tree Diplomacy
Life is conflict. While we think we know how we’d act as we watch someone else in a dispute, when it’s us we may not be quite so sure.
The Benefit of a Bad Beginning
A bad start in life gives the good things that finally come a rare preciousness.