Fiction

    He was dreaming about baseball when a line drive slammed into his jaw. Noah’s eyelids shot open, and his pupils adjusted to the harsh...

  One set of tracks curl out in one direction, the other set in another. Not a "v" exactly, more like the curling leaves at...

    On the night of the long hard day when their son, Jason, abandoned by his wife, returned home with his two sons, Peggy Gorey...

    She was a working woman and a homemaker. After a long day at work, she was driving back home and thinking about the calls...

    “Just think…if this goes well…we’ll die like this,” he said, as they lay entangled in the afterglow of amazing sex. She laughed, knowing exactly what...

    The red star on a grinning policeman’s hat matched his star-studded, red epaulettes. A passing truck’s noise helped me “ignore” that cop’s whistling attempt...

    The two weeks the Tang minister Fang Xuan-ling stole from his work in the capital to visit the poet/peasant Chen Hsi-wei in Chiangling were...

    X-rays struck Matthew's tray. A snowy-haired man, with marine-green eyes, attempting impartiality, and glowing like alabaster, asked: "Why Israel?" A distorted representation of Matthew filled...

    I have lost my dignity. Though my wife mourns it daily, is appalled, I say, "Good riddance!" I sit hunched over and receive the minutes, let...

    I fight to control my fears, the fears and thoughts that began the day when all things changed the world forever. With many miles...