Mysterious artifacts are found inside a Mojave desert construction site leading to unexpected reunions for a contractor and his wife.
Raging Rails and Campfire Tales
Tag: family
Ruminating Spume
A bottle on a Mediterranean beach provokes childhood nostalgia.
Chrysanthemum
Inspired from the verse “Requiescat” written by an Anglo-Irish poet. Chrysanthemum, however, is dedicated to my late grandmother.
Birthing Pains
Giving birth in a war zone
Modernist Poetry
Modernist literature is characterized by a break with traditions of literary subjects, forms, concepts and styles.
An Inconvenient Truth
A mother’s reaction to her daughter’s unplanned pregnancy.
Wretch
A story of a son looking for redemption after committing a grievous mistake years ago.
Jack in the Box
Do we ever really know our parents, or do we only think we do? Can an adult have a “coming of age” experience?
the devil’s fingers
a murderer
doesn’t realize
A Rhetorical Question
A complicated response to a rhetorical question.
April’s Foul Day
This is a short story on grief and loss.
Oh Bobby, Why Didn’t You Look?
The accidental death of a child and the impact upon his family and his father’s lover.
Woowo
A teenage girl learns of her grandfather’s horrifying death.
The Urns We Carry
My sister-in-law died last spring from a drug overdose. We found out that the funeral home would seal her ashes in several different urns.
Cry Me a River
Toxic relationships, even those of close family members, need not be tolerated, as our mental health is far more important.
FireFlies
Exploring human relationships and the impact we have on each other as we move through our lives.