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Category Archives: Fiction
Obsession
I sat on a bench, the sort that’s attached to a redwood picnic table, facing outwards to a shorn field that served as the town’s off-leash dog park. I threw a tennis ball, a Penn, with a ball tosser, something … Continue reading
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A Day in the Life of Gus Peterman
Gus Peterman had the rest of his days ahead to look forward to. Both of them Of course, that wasn’t much of a surprise. Once you’re diagnosed with terminal cancer, once you’ve gone through the whole denial, bargaining thing, you’re … Continue reading
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A Day on the Lake
Sam pumped and pumped but it was no use. The ball was dead flat. He wanted to swim with it as a substitute for the disintegrated styrofoam kickboard, the victim of a summer’s fun for a few too many kids. … Continue reading
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Admissions Process
It was not as if the boy’s pleas were falling on deaf ears, not at all. Henry Munroe heard him loud and clear, his impatience growing each time the child asked. Was he oblivious? If a teacher meant no, … Continue reading
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Pursuit of Knowledge
Marshall arrived earlier than needed to the lecture hall and waited in the back, near the one entrance. He leaned casually, in a studied manner, against the door scribbling in his open notebook. Every other second, he looked up as … Continue reading
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Return of the Blob
The film had only just started when the blob filled the screen, blackening the panoramic shot of the upper Amazon, the foothills of the Andes in the distance, cinematography that demonstrated why the film won an Oscar for it. The … Continue reading
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One Restraining Order Too Many
Two things happened at once. First, there was the scream. Then the late-night commuters were jolted forward, then backward, hard, as the air brakes screeched the train to a sudden halt. There were the requisite female screams like you hear … Continue reading
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Trays
It was the witching hour at The Willows, the hour when the lights went down and voices settled into whispers before stopping entirely. A handful of the devout sat in the library, all looking toward a bookshelf, which was covered … Continue reading
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No One Wanted To Be A Hero
No one wanted to be a hero. No one. Not now, anyway. It was over, pretty much, or would be soon enough. That’s what everyone was saying. That’s what newspapers said and the last one most guys saw was “yesterday’s … Continue reading
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It Wasn’t A Coffin
It wasn’t a coffin. For starters, it was metal and vertical; coffins are made of wood and lay horizontally. He knew that much. And coffins didn’t have slats at eye level, presumably for airing out sweaty gym gear, or hooks … Continue reading
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