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  • The Coffee Shop Extortion - Friday Fiction

    I could see what was going on; I could see it very clearly. In this transitional neighborhood, renovation and revitalization on the one hand mixed with the old and young street characters of poverty and homelessness on …

  • The Perfect Song

    He awoke at the bottom of the embankment among the trees, his car, slapped around, had come to rest probably 100 yards from the road, within the forest. He could breath, short breaths, but it hurt. He could not move hi…

  • Friday Fiction - The StalkerThis is not intended to make light of the situation her uncle finds himself in, but I have to give a little credit for this idea to whateva, for this blog and also to my wife, who read her blo…

  • Friday Fiction - Mankind's Second HomeMiles McCormick orbited the Earth, firing off another probe. Into the atmosphere it went. It was too late now to turn back. Miles had his doubts, but for the most part he believed…

  • Friday Fiction - How Barbie Met Ronald McDonaldWhen Barbie was young, everyone knows she only dated Ken. That was particularly weird being that Ken was her brother, but when you don't have a lot of options what can you …

  • Friday Fiction - Dark in JerseyI've gathered you all here today so I can tell you some things about my life, some things you may not know, because I never told anyone. Let's face it, I'm getting old. If I don't tell yo…

  • Friday Fiction - To Those Who WaitWhen I was a little girl my parents used to have sex in their bedroom and we could hear it going on. I don’t remember ever not knowing what they were doing. We knew. I mean we didn’t rea…

  • Part IIThe CreativesThe Creatives are masters of the figurative. That’s more true of the musicians, and poets, and actors and painters than it is with the writers of prose, like I am, but in general it’s true. Whereas …

  • Part IThe ImmortalsThese were the real Jedi.They didn’t make balls float in the air, and they didn't fly. They couldn’t see the future, except perhaps by gifted intuition fueled by an understanding of the past or human …

  • More last days of a Superhero - The Human TorchMike Knight really was a superhero. The defining moment of his life had been his brother’s death in a mugging that took place in the NYC subways. There had been witnesse…

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