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March 23, 2026

Like all the other staff, George works for a wage that makes the owner rich. Like all the other staff, if George weren't at the front of the house, he'd be at the back cooking. Unlike all the other staff, George has a little secret.

February 20, 2026

…I don’t particularly talk to my daughter about her grandpa mostly because I believe she’s safe around him. And she’s safe only because she’s a girl. Pa has never hurt a girl. He’s also become a shadow of his former self. Still, I wouldn’t leave her alone with him…

February 6, 2026

Bicycles-Angeline is a tortoiseshell cat. Bicycles because I first saw her all curled up beside my neighbor’s two bicycles. Angeline because she tends to disappear for long stretches at a time, then reappear again seemingly out of nowhere, like this morning.

August 30, 2025

Nobody saw it coming.

Except for the two or three tables around him, maybe, nobody would've suspected the foreboding theater...

August 15, 2025

...He sank into his bay window daybed, staring out into the cove. A daysailer with a Union Jack mainsail had caught his eyes. So he followed it, his mind blank...

August 1, 2025

...I was seven when mom showed me how to make salmon ochazuke – her favorite among the different ochazukes – her way. The finer points in life took many more years to marinate...

July 11, 2025

She's eighty now. She's washing herself, her bathroom dimly lit. A memory comes back again. It has never really left. If it were possible, the memory would have yellowed and browned and turned brittle by now...

July 4, 2025

"The second half of the movie didn't happen. It was Schofield’s hallucination in the moments before his death, lying there at the bottom of the stairs after being shot."

June 27, 2025

...She lived for the Jane in her. She worked, when the right gig came along, to pay for the Jane in her. She held on to the Jane in her with clenched fists...

June 20, 2025

Men mostly...resigned that their horse isn't going to even show at the track...

June 13, 2025

...The hill is within distance. A unicorn is grazing in the vale before the hill. She is in a curvy white dress...

June 6, 2025

...A man limps over. He appears drunk. It's in his gait. Not staggering. A wobbly saunter. Or is it that his right leg is half an inch longer than his left?

The lady smiles at him. A playful sort of half-grin. He smiles back wryly.

I know that grin. All too well...