A White Lie
Vanessa types away at her keyboard a debriefing report about a current case for the office. The phone rings. She is not startled by the ring. After thirteen…
Driving In A Daze
I’m speeding. My surroundings fly past me. My foot is locked on the gas pedal involuntarily. I look through the glass windows, but I cannot see what is ahead…
The Possibility of You [poem]
All my nerve endings are flashing Like neon signs that read “OPEN.” Electricity trails sparks down my spine And my veins thrum madly Like strings that have…
Lilith
She looked up out of thin gray walls that curled up over her bare skin. Later she would think of it as a sarcophagus, but for now it was simply the first thing…
Stolen Mass
Every rotation, she diminishes and I increase. I will be my sister’s grim reaper. I can imagine that, at first, our parents were ecstatic. A twin star birth…
crab walk gridlock
The scraggly kid poked his brain out the water at me, bobbing up and down in the murk green salty sea like a floaty barnacle. His swim trunks ballooned around…
Flash
Flash. Red. Mason’s heart skipped a beat. Flash. Blue. He looked out the window and couldn’t believe his eyes. They had found him. He had been careful to…
Dear Santa, good luck...
Dear old Santa, Your such an %^$ ! Since that is the way you feel then there is nothing to be done about it. As is fair an equitable you won’t mind me taking…
George in Space 2
This can’t be good he thought to himself. He pushed the button again, but nothing happened. George heard the compartment doors slide open, as Alicia walked in…
George in Space
George pushed the ship’s button. George was always pushing buttons. This was much more fun than he expected or normally found though. Each time George pushed…
Silent Goodbye
He held her hand listening to her breathing. He tried to remember when he would hear her breathing softly next to him without the gurgle of heavy liquid…