incremental

In a lifetime each of us adds to our rap sheet. Daily, with each interaction, each step towards or away from, the collective good. By the time we leave this world , holding out hope for the next, we will have committed many many crimes: crimes against nature, against strangers, against humanity at large… against … Continue reading →

Adaptations…

(excerpt from Hogue’s 1st section, musings about his partner Cobb when they’re visiting the house of a Black woman who Cobb goes to church with and her daughter) – from my novel, Temperatures, published by Winding Road Stories “Cobb says his pastor was never much for anything racist. Believes the Lord holds everybody in the … Continue reading →

Towhead

(excerpt from future novel of mine) “I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not” Kurt Cobain It was her first gig. She had no reason to think there’d be more. Looking out over the room, the haze of dank vape smoke swirling around heads, the cartoonish faces of … Continue reading →

Burn

I got food poisoning a few weeks back. Head resting on the toilet bowl, my dog looking on, I thought of that day. That day my principal called you to come to school. Behind a closed door he told you. I’m not sure exactly what it was he told you, but on the way home … Continue reading →