A man walking home in the rain takes cover in what he thinks is an Empty Storefront, but it is the storefront for an elderly blind man’s barbershop.
Blind
Category: Short Stories
Boots
A short reflection on education, privilege, homelessness, hope, and, of course, five-hundred dollar, leather boots.
And I haven’t had a thing to eat all day
Love and Death – turnabout IS fair play.
Fervent Orison
“Fervent Orison” explores very briefly the classic moment in which ‘the young man with the destiny’ must pull away from the mundane.
Texas Football
A high school football game in Texas in 1981. A time and place as dead and gone as the glories of Rome.
The Beard
The narrator meets a poor pensioner in the streets of Tirana, Albania. He tells him about his son, made unemployable ‘because of his long beard’
The Concrete Guy
Chuck just wants to get to the store for a coffee and a roll. When someone snakes his spot, he becomes unglued.
And Then, The Gods Came
A man trapped in a forest realizes that it may not be what he thinks it is. In fact, it may not be a forest at all.
Foraging
A 900 word Flash Fiction story of a boy who lives in the projects and finds something and someone that will most likely change his life.
Parting Company
An older man reminisces on the morning his 40-year-old hardware store is to be stripped of its last merchandise.
Reflections
What color is God? What reflections do we see in the mirror?