People Burt Harrison knows start getting killed but their connection to him is not the only coincidence. They all die while eating yellow food. Something in Burt’s past drives him to come forward and suggest a possible motive for the killings and in so doing, makes a suspect of himself.
Published in the November, 2009 edition of The View From Here
Bumping
With his once brilliant mind failing him minute by minute, Bernard decides on a course of action. But as sits on a rock by the ocean he can’t remember what it was. He exchanges with a young woman walking her dog and glimpses of the life he led provide comfort for her and in so doing, leaves his only witness to the lonely goal he will pursue.
Published in the February, 2110 edition of The Sentinel Literary Quarterly
The Beginnings
He hadn’t thought he was lonely until that day she stopped him in the courtyard. But it was more than that and as the years rolled by, he would regret not a day with her and took pride in his assertion they could weather any storm. But what he had taken for lonely the day they met was something else and as she lived on, now he must too.
Ellie Is Here 2
Gary doesn’t have many friends so when his chat room friend Ellie Sue in Alabama disappears, he tries to find out why. His research reveals that Ellie Sue died by her own hand they say, after suffering from severe depression. Nothing seems right and so he decides to find out what happened. After all, how well do any of us really know who we’re really chatting with?
Published in the December, 2009 edition of The View From Here
To Be Safe
As he slithers through the jungle to close width on a solitary enemy, he knows he is no different than the man he will kill. As he waits in the bush for others to inspect his carnage, a burning pain sears his leg forcing a preemptive strike. But there are too many. Too many.
Published in the February, 2110 edition of The Cynic Online Magazine
Sally’s
Jim the stranger and Harley sat nearly side by side at the counter at Sally’s in Nebraska. Had Molly the waitress not whispered Harley’s last name, a truth Jim held might have gone unspoken between them. Before the day would end, he’d share that truth with Harley’s family and they would share a final letter that would hold up a mirror to Jim he’d never looked into.
Published in the July, 2010 Dawn 2.
The Volchev File
Igor Volchev has spent 25-years in Labor Camps and the Soviet Gulag in Moscow for defending Soviet officers accused of atrocities committed during the Ukrainian independence rebellion. The story is horrific. The truth is as well but Igor’s path to redemption defies all probability as the ghosts of post war Europe conspire to right this wrong.
Published in Prole: Poetry and Prose, 2010 and seventeen other stories in publications such as Uncharted Frontier Zine, NAZAR Look, The Sentinel Literary Quarterly and Postcards, Poems and Prose
