Fiction

Time Is Not A Line

Time stretched and bent around her as she sat. She’d been sitting in this chair by the door for some time. She’d been sitting in this...

An Ordinary Late Winter Afternoon

If only she hadn’t brought the damn dog. All the old farmers would tell you, always leave the dogs at home. But they were stupid, so so...

And The Diamonds Danced

She sat quietly, breathing in and breathing out, breathing in the sharp-sweet-bitter-slightly-sulfurous tang of seaweed and of salt. She...

Conclusion: Till The Cows Come Home

[Continued from post of March 22, 2018] 1. Dream Boy I knew it, I knew it, I knew it, thought Dream Boy. Those stupid cows have gone all...

They Thought There’d Be More Time

They knew death was coming. Eventually. Maybe even soon. But none of them knew Death well enough to know how soon, and so it took them by...

Till The Cows Come Home

1. Molly Molly peered cautiously over the fence. She turned her huge head one way, then the other, muttering to herself as one of those...

On The Shores Of Her Heart

She sat and sat and sat, waves of regret crashing on the shores of her heart, waves depositing the flotsam and jetsam of her broken life...

It’s How The Light Gets In

She sat and sat and sat, carefully sifting memories like sand, memories of a seashore much like this one, floury silky white sand, those...

To See The Sky, A Little Longer

She was dying. Not in the abstract, someday way of all of us, not in the slow and inexorable plodding way of terminal illness, but NOW,...

Abiding

Late afternoon. She’s feeling twitchy and she doesn’t know why. Actually that’s a lie. She knows exactly why. It’s that time of day when...

Fish Out of Water

She stood at the counter in her tiny kitchen, frozen in the act of skinning ocean perch fillets for Brazilian fish stew, frozen by memory...

Bees, Late Summer Afternoon

She sat and sat and sat. This time, it was a good thing, because she’d actually gotten up out of the the chair by the door and was now...

The Pavement Ends at the Outhouse

We lived on a dirt road in a remote rural part of the country. It was an election year, so they were paving as many roads as they could...