My grandfather’s cigarette never left his lips, so everyone remembers him with a perpetual Popeye squint from the smoke wafting up to his eyes. My memory is much more specific. I remember the day grandpa saved my cousin Karl’s life.…
NaNoWriMo is an organization that challenges people to write an entire novel in the month of November. I decided to give it a try. They set a goal of 50,000 words but wasn’t even sure I could type in 50,000…
Three very short short stories. My sister was the costume designer for her local high school’s plays for years. I would often fly in to take our mom to see the production. Towards the end, as her mobility decreased, we’d …
A locked room mystery. Tracks Revenge, a dish best served cold. And snowy. It was a Saturday morning in December, made eerily quiet from the just ended snowstorm that swallowed all the ambient noise. There were a half dozen snow…
It was mid-afternoon on Christmas Eve and Dexter was out of clean clothes. He’d have to go to the laundromat. Christmas didn’t mean much to him anyway. The family had long ago stopped sending gifts and, since the divorce, he…
Acknowledgments Thank you to Mike Stevens for the cover photo and Josh Wunderby for the sketches. Special thanks to Clare and Mike. All spelling and grammatical errors courtesy of the author. For Katherine Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Lou Mulligan is the quiet half of a set of identical twins. When tragedy strikes at home, he moves a thousand miles away to try to reinvent his life. He meets a cast of eccentric characters on his odyssey from…
