Category Archives: Fiction

A Hiking Trip

Posted on June 3, 2020 by admin

Hiking alone? At 4,000-something feet? In October?  Honestly?  Stupid, stupid and stupider.   Insight comes at the wrong time, Frank thought, and it hit him that that was insight itself.  He managed to laugh a little, and imagined a smile on … Continue reading →

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Di-a-tomaceous Death

Posted on May 13, 2020 by admin

Tommy Fitzgerald sat stiffly in his truck, toying with a stale Marlboro he kept in reserve in the clean ashtray, a deliberate temptation to prove he didn’t have to smoke anymore. It was the last one and so long to … Continue reading →

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Here Kitty Kitty

Posted on December 5, 2019 by admin

(Yeah, well, I’ve been lazy about writing stuff, fiction. Call it writer’s block or lack of talent. Or laziness. Heck, call it all three!) What Crosses Your Path. He wished he’d thought more about that black cat when he first … Continue reading →

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A Life on the Lake

Posted on October 25, 2019 by admin

(So I’ve not been writing much at all, but has this one stashed away and decided to post it just to keep engaged. It means something to me, though I’m not overly proud of it to be honest.) Sam pumped … Continue reading →

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Sliding Home

Posted on September 24, 2019 by admin

(I haven’t written much for months as I’ve been traveling with Pippa, the boys, friends, fishing, sailing and starting classes again. This one is a bit namby bamby but I want to get back into the spirit. I doubt most … Continue reading →

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A Winter’s Walk

Posted on May 14, 2019 by admin

It was just the two of them, trudging along for what felt like an eternity. They walked that first night and hid the next day. At some point they’d given up on trying to hide; there was no one to … Continue reading →

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Another Fish Story

Posted on April 21, 2019 by admin

The Trout Went One Way The trout went one way. Foster went another. He leapt out of the water, arching over its surface, and then diving into the depths of the cold pool. For a trout, such a move is … Continue reading →

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Man’s Best Friend

Posted on March 22, 2019 by admin

Willis stumbled again. He hadn’t seen the slick root of the spruce. Anyway, he had given up trying to avoid them. He grabbed at a wet pine branch, scraping his already raw hand and getting sap on it but managed … Continue reading →

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Encounter in a Park

Posted on March 9, 2019 by admin

  I. The senior partner raised his glass for one final toast to the departing 3L, a third-year law student who’d come in for the Christmas Party. He’d just been offered a position to start at the end of the … Continue reading →

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The Last Cast

Posted on February 1, 2019 by admin

When Charlie Calisher was shoved into early retirement he made a promise to himself; he’d fish until he got bored. Boredom was not the goal. Boredom was a worry, an admonishment, a sentence that he was beside the point.  He’d … Continue reading →

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