Places Poe lived from 1809 to 1849 and the Poe Museum in Richmond Virginia, leads to a look at the writer’s house as a pilgrimage shrine.
Edgar Allan Poe: Writer in Residence
Tag: family
What the War Gave Back
An elderly man carries grief across a lifetime, until time bends and the past returns what it once took.
The Wrong Road
Exploring the moral conflict between a father and his son during the final years of the communist regime in Romania.
Jiaan’s Flowers
A public safety officer’s day at work after a tragedy.
Used Steinways
A Story of Friendship, Growth, and the Love of Pianos.
The Last Voice Message from Abuela
A quiet, haunting story about a woman who keeps receiving voicemails from her deceased grandmother – messages that evolve with time.
The Gardener
Following a family’s long-time gardener, Westin Yeled who discovers something that haunts him, and rocks his tiny world.
The Marionettist
When playing with dolls gets serious.
Buried Prehistory
I found a dinosaur buried under a boulder in the hills near the Ohio River. I wondered what he saw from his trapped perch.
The Benefit of a Bad Beginning
A bad start in life gives the good things that finally come a rare preciousness.
Tic toc
Time, relentless and hard
Sweeps me swiftly forward
Happy Birthday Dad
Written on my father’s 100th birthday. Even though he left this world many years ago, he will never be forgotten by me.
Raging Rails and Campfire Tales
Mysterious artifacts are found inside a Mojave desert construction site leading to unexpected reunions for a contractor and his wife.
Ruminating Spume
A bottle on a Mediterranean beach provokes childhood nostalgia.
Chrysanthemum
Inspired from the verse “Requiescat” written by an Anglo-Irish poet. Chrysanthemum, however, is dedicated to my late grandmother.
Birthing Pains
Giving birth in a war zone
Modernist Poetry
Modernist literature is characterized by a break with traditions of literary subjects, forms, concepts and styles.