Epiphany

Summer of Love:

 In 1967, the “summer of love,” I was a  sixteen-year-old-middle-class-White-boy-hippie-wannabe. Long hair, loud  music, unshakeable opinions...Read the story

The Least I Could Do

On the appointed day, we returned to our deep-cleaned office building. As HR instructed, we social-distanced and washed hands frequently...  Read the story.

On Moving On

Moving on is never easy. That's especially true in a pandemic. 

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The only Good Vampire--

A REALLY short story.

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Squashing a Grasshopper— 

Moving ahead in one's career can be a ruthless business. Has our protagonist figured it out?

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The English-Only Rule— 

The daughter of Polish immigrants comes of age during the Depression.

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Final Thoughts— 

A dying man wonders what his final thought will be. "Something big, I hope. Something important."

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Elegy—What's it like to have something important to say, but no way to say it?

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Hemingway Would Understand—A macho uncle, a 12-year-old boy and a gun. What could go wrong?

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Ecce Romo--Memories are tricky. Controlling how you'll be remembered can be trickier, still.

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Broken Hearts— An alien reveals her true self to her earth boyfriend. It's not easy being purple. 

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Lost in Pittsburgh, a Flash Novel All chapters now avaialable! 

Why are any of us here? Where do any of us belong?

This story is just slightly longer than its title.

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The Laughing Monarch-- Life's big questions drive an insect buggy... 

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 Raptured—Getting fired in this workplace occurs at the end of the day. By morning, all evidence one ever worked there will have been erased. Tragedy? 

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Four-One-One-- An old rotary phone triggers memories for a grieving woman. Some are pleasant. Others, well…read for yourself. 

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The Truth about Truth—Sometimes the truth sets you free. Other times… 

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Bigger Lies are Coming--Things that happen when your brain lies to you 

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Darwin's Monkey:  Would you turn in your boss to move up the corporate evolutionary ladder? 

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 Honest Abe’s Two Cents…And a Question 

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 Epiphany

Who were those three guys, and what happened to them afterward? 

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Babysitting Michael—A pair of aging hippies demonstrate non-violent confrontation for their young grandson. Remember Chicago in '68? 

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Sins of the Father-- 

Older cousins reported that Grandpa Wil had visited them at the stroke of midnight on their twenty-first birthdays.  But in my case, he showed up more than a dozen hours late...

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Prologue

After two months of watching friends turned into bloody pulps and making bloody pulps of strangers, Art had the look and gait of a man much older than the twenty-year-old sergeant who’d come ashore on D-Day...

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