The Least I Could Do
On the appointed day, we returned to our deep-cleaned office building. As HR instructed, we ... Read the rest of the story.
Summer of Love
The Least I Could Do
The Least I Could Do
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
The Least I Could Do
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
The Least I Could Do
The Only Good Vampire
The Only Good Vampire
Squashing a Grasshopper
The Only Good Vampire
Squashing a Grasshopper
Squashing a Grasshopper
Squashing a Grasshopper
Squashing a Grasshopper—
Moving ahead in one's career can be a ruthless business. Has our protagonist figured it out?
The English-Only Rule
Squashing a Grasshopper
Squashing a Grasshopper
The English-Only Rule—
The daughter of Polish immigrants comes of age during the Depression.
Final Thoughts
Hemingway Would Understand
Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts—
A dying man wonders what his final thought will be. "Something big, I hope. Something important."
Elegy
Hemingway Would Understand
Final Thoughts
Hemingway Would Understand
Hemingway Would Understand
Hemingway Would Understand
Hemingway Would Understand—A macho uncle, a 12-year-old boy and a gun. What could go wrong?
Ecce Romo
Lost in Pittsburgh
Hemingway Would Understand
Ecce Romo--Memories are tricky. Controlling how you'll be remembered can be trickier, still.
Broken Hearts
Lost in Pittsburgh
Lost in Pittsburgh
Broken Hearts— An alien reveals her true self to her earth boyfriend. It's not easy being purple.
Lost in Pittsburgh
Lost in Pittsburgh
Lost in Pittsburgh
Lost in Pittsburgh, a Flash Novel All chapters now avaialable!
Why are any of us here? Where do any of us belong?
Big Chain Shutters More Bookstores; Blames Predatory Online Competition
Big Chain Shutters More Bookstores; Blames Predatory Online Competition
Big Chain Shutters More Bookstores; Blames Predatory Online Competition
The Laughing Monarch
Big Chain Shutters More Bookstores; Blames Predatory Online Competition
Big Chain Shutters More Bookstores; Blames Predatory Online Competition
The Laughing Monarch-- Life's big questions drive an insect buggy...
Raptured
Big Chain Shutters More Bookstores; Blames Predatory Online Competition
Four-One-One
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?
Four-One-One
Bigger Lies are Coming
Four-One-One
Four-One-One-- An old rotary phone triggers memories for a grieving woman. Some are pleasant. Others, well…read for yourself.
The Truth About Truth
Bigger Lies are Coming
Bigger Lies are Coming
Bigger Lies are Coming
Bigger Lies are Coming
Bigger Lies are Coming
Darwin's Monkey
Honest Abe's Two Cents
Honest Abe's Two Cents
Darwin's Monkey: Would you turn in your boss to move up the corporate evolutionary ladder?
Honest Abe's Two Cents
Honest Abe's Two Cents
Honest Abe's Two Cents
Honest Abe’s Two Cents…And a Question
Epiphany
Honest Abe's Two Cents
Babysitting Michael
Babysitting Michael
Babysitting Michael
Babysitting Michael
Babysitting Michael—A pair of aging hippies demonstrate non-violent confrontation for their young grandson. Remember Chicago in '68?
Sins of the Father
Babysitting Michael
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...
Prologue
Babysitting Michael
Sins of the Father
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...
Must've Been the Tuna
Jazzy, Jacques Barzun and Baseball
Must've Been the Tuna
Her eyes were red as the seasonal wrapping paper in which she’d swaddled her office door.
Maybe not the best time for a meeting with my boss, Hope Battaglia...
Absolution
Jazzy, Jacques Barzun and Baseball
Must've Been the Tuna
Father James C. Rockwell had sat enough death watches to sense when the end was imminent. He had that sense as he walked into his mother’s hospice room...
Jazzy, Jacques Barzun and Baseball
Jazzy, Jacques Barzun and Baseball
Jazzy, Jacques Barzun and Baseball
Jazzy, Jacquest Barzun and Baseball
Jazzy had first learned English by reading and her vocabulary could sound strange to my American ears. Words like suitor, betrothal, nuptials.
But when Jazzy meant love, that was the word she used. As in her final message, just before the World Trade Center’s North Tower collapsed: “Joe! I love you and always will!” Read the rest of the story.
Raincheck
Suppose your job were to think the unthinkable...what might you think about? Read the story.