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Tag: Fiction
Flash Fiction – “Clogged within Throats” – 1/11/2023
At whose presence? Was he to live? Was he to stay living? For a woman born, and also scorned. She … More
“Another Mirror, Another Enemy” – Novel Excerpt
A grave. Open and wide, like a mother’s arms. Water comes in from pouring rain, filling up that gap, as … More
Flash Fiction – “Every other Soldier” – 300 words – 9/28/2022
She tells my pain to wait. As if water can fall after I’ve twisted a knob to a faucet. This … More
Flash Fiction – “In the Gray of every Day” – 600 words – 9/28/2022
Herein lies a crippled horse. He struggles to find a way to walk. Tears have left him burning on a … More
Flash Fiction – 400 words – “A Link and the Step” – 6/27/2022
Love remains a fire, roaring in a man’s heart. One long look runs out towards a feeble horizon much like … More
Flash Fiction – “Broken Eyes and Nonsense” – 500 words – 6/11/2022
Life comes in ripples. Satisfaction arrives in miniature; it has been said to her, while any evidence had never been … More
Flash Fiction – 250 words – “The Jealous Bird” – Modern Romanticism – 4/30/2022
He held her at arm’s length, counting his feathers. Softness around him. Eyes of an eagle, the beak of an … More
Short Story – “The Fate of Farewells” – Chapter I – Modern Romanticism – 4/24/2022
I For Sickness, for Shame The time has come. The time did come. When bedsheets are folded over as pages … More
Novel: “Heaven Never Denies” – Chapter 1: “Buried in the Closet”
Head on the pillow. Her head in his arms, here daydreaming of the days when he would do that. When … More
Flash Fiction – “Tearing the Ocean Apart” – 350 words – 3/30/2022
The dream. Our dream. Our eyes are matched, upon the surface. The walk. My steps are not from the cross, … More
Flash Fiction – 650 words – “As the Two were Leaving” – 3/28/2022
Their version of history. Their eyes. Caught. In a spiderweb of memories, both lovers; no, something more connected; a husband … More