Bryn’s Tale – Part Two
Short Story I woke covered in freezing dew, my teeth chattering. My first impulse was to go back home, to curl up in my parents bed, but I knew I could never go back...
Category: Short Stories
River of Rats, Part Two – Aux Folies
We spent a month at a bookstore in the old Latin Quarter of Paris. The old shop had a long history of allowing aspiring writers to bunk there as long as they worked a couple...
River of Rats, Part Three – The Bridge
We woke the next morning in the bookstore, pale and ill, my head in a vice grip, my left arm swollen and sore. Joanna’s hair in knots and mascara smeared all over her face,...
River of Rats, Part Four – Voleur!
The summer came and went in a heavy gossamer haze. We spent days walking up and down the Seine and around the city and we often sat on the tip of the Île de...
River of Rats, Part Five – Pigalle
I don’t remember ever talking about it, or how a decision was made. But one night, we jumped the turn-styles at the Pont Neuf station- because we didn’t have money even for that- and rode...
River of Rats, Part Six – We Are Always Hungry
Serial Fiction Story She went back. And I went with her and sat on the same bench while she leaned on the same wall on the same corner. She didn’t have too, not as...
River of Rats, Part Seven – And Everything
Serial Fiction I woke with a start. How long was I asleep for? The sun was coming up and my bones felt brittle with frost. I had slumped off the bench and fallen to...
Reunion of Death – Part One
Serial Story Chapter 1 “Honey, I thought the point of moving back to your hometown was to get back in touch with your roots.” -“Excuse me? You are the one who insisted we move...
Hope is a Dangerous Beast
Poem Everything looks gigantically for your sake little man freedom does that to you how long till you can see it all you ask the sunrise brings it all empty homes broken doors...
The Baker, The Butcher and The Brewer, Part Three – The Butcher 20
Novel All real plants, he could smell the freshly cut grass. Real size trees, butterflies flying by. Little birds singing sweet songs. It was what paradise would look like to a gardener. The...
Animal Dilemmas – Oyster Vervet
Short Story The Vervet was cursing fate for setting it on this lonely trajectory that could lead to nothing good. The more fermented fruits it ate the more it realized that their sweet juice...
The Baker, The Butcher and The Brewer, Part Three – The Butcher 19
Novel ‘Piss on them all makers and takers.’ Thought the Butcher. He did need to piss and could not think of a better place in the world. It was pass midnight. Pass midnight...
