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My Coffee Date with Death
A chance meeting with a mysterious stranger provides a pathway to salvation for a desperate man who has lost his way during a pandemic.
deathdefying
no point in kneeling down
on rough stones
Some Are Not Meant For This World
This was written after reading about a woman suffering from depression who was released from a hospital without anyone calling her relatives.
Glory Be
A small town is on edge due to a string of brutal murders. The town’s most senior detective, Detective Lohelm is on the case.
Our Arborist
Tree limbs provide a bridge across fences dividing people.
Pasture Statues
What does the cow see behind the woman and child?
What to Bring Your First Time at the Death Cafe
The limits of grieving alone.
Fernglow’s Final Equation
A physics professor attempts to end the scourge of gun violence by means of a simple mathematical theorem …
the triumph of the autonomic
Addressing COVID 19.
A Getaway from the Everyday
A young couple meet for their commute home on the Staten Island Ferry and discuss if joining the rat race and living an unfulfilling…
Base Jumpers
This piece is quick, profound and interesting fiction.
Stars above Detroit
Togetherness, love, and hope flourish within an abandoned neighborhood.
Two-Face
In this vignette, the teen discovers his courage and overcomes his life-long shame when he plunges off a quarry ledge to save his chief tormentor
Apple of My Eye
A narrative persona poem of young love and human callousness.
The Ordinary Second
Happens when you least expect it.
The distracted driver blabbing on his phone