He was the tallest building she’d ever lived in–six-foot-seven, with hands stretched across him like a canvas. He had long, dirty hair and panicked eyes. Ruby seized whatever words she could on those rare occasions when he talked. The horror … Continue reading
Category Archives: Flash Fiction
It’s a summer afternoon in Montreal and some asshole is making his way toward me. He is just another obstacle to move, skirt and trouble around. He whistles some revolting tune louder and louder when he zeros in on me–a … Continue reading
Winds of words howled inside Gerald’s head as he sat silently eating his supper listening to his wife. “I don’t understand what you did to make this happen?” She picked at her lima beans, while behind glass a panorama of … Continue reading
A woman limped out of a liquor store with the submissive stoop of the genuflected and the promise of a liturgy to come in a bottle. A radiant, old face with the slight tremor of the merciful, holding a brown … Continue reading
Each kid found himself victim to one of the many human abuses of dumping a child out of the back of a station wagon into the snot-filled clutches of a pack of anonymous kids. It was an enforced group dynamics … Continue reading
These stories comprise my collection of short fiction entitled “A Woman of No Importance and other stories”. There are eighteen stories in all. My writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Calliope, Santa Fe Literary Review, San Francisco Bay Press, … Continue reading