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: old
What the War Gave Back
An elderly man carries grief across a lifetime, until time bends and the past returns what it once took.
Through a Filter Dimly
Ben, a lonely man looking for love. When everyone who can afford the cost is beautiful, what is left for the rest of us?
A Walk in the Park
An old man is walking along the river in Waterfront Park, trying to soothe his mind in a world that he believes has gone mad.
Long Goodbye
Alone, I walk fields and woods we loved
Seeing you with every step
The Blue Binder
A tattered blue binder reveals a mind that sees pathways no one else can.
The Wrong Road
Exploring the moral conflict between a father and his son during the final years of the communist regime in Romania.
Then and Now
Light-hearted reflections about the impairments of advanced age.
Deadname
”Deadname” is a sestina that mirrors gender transition with the emotional transition of a family that has to put their biases behind them.
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 Bel Air inside the Bog
A retired English teacher learns of a rumour about two missing high school students and sets out to solve the fifty year old puzzle.
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.
Old apple tree
There is an apple tree
At the bottom of the garden
Oh so Miserable
Wednesdays it’s raining solidly, the sky is dour and gray,
About the place that makes me so miserable, yet still I stay.
Lost in Pepperland
A middle-aged man learns the true meaning of growing old.