A World War Two veteran, survivor of the Bataan Death March, reconciles with his family after a long and painful estrangement.
Inheritance
Category: Short Stories
Confrontation
Short piece about the angst of youthful relationships.
Last Swim
A man takes a swim and thinks back on his life as he drowns.
A Rainy Road
A man on his way home during a rain storm skids off the road into a vehicle with its flashers on.
The Submission
Phone rings.
“Hello?”
The Initial Legend of the Great Founder
About the Great Founder. The story supports itself. There is no one description.
Smiley’s Victory
294 words. Trying not to kill a horse.
The Wedding
A transgendered teenager, engages in a fantasy with her girlfriend to express her love for her and to avoid the awful reality of being raped.
Not Like Us
This story takes place in London. Franc, a London-living Albanian, gets a call from his close mate Zen who asks for help to collect a debt.
A Beautiful Life, I Promise
The main characters brother tragically dies. She has now given up on everything and will not even speak.
Blind
A man walking home in the rain takes cover in what he thinks is an Empty Storefront, but it is the storefront for an elderly blind man’s barbershop.
Boots
A short reflection on education, privilege, homelessness, hope, and, of course, five-hundred dollar, leather boots.
And I haven’t had a thing to eat all day
Love and Death – turnabout IS fair play.
Fervent Orison
“Fervent Orison” explores very briefly the classic moment in which ‘the young man with the destiny’ must pull away from the mundane.
Texas Football
A high school football game in Texas in 1981. A time and place as dead and gone as the glories of Rome.
The Beard
The narrator meets a poor pensioner in the streets of Tirana, Albania. He tells him about his son, made unemployable ‘because of his long beard’