Wolves at the Door
The wolves were at the door, finally. Jackie waited for them all night long and got good and drunk in the process, and now they were pounded and pounded and pounded hard and demanded entrance. “Little Pig, Little Pig, Let me in.” One of them yelled out from behind the door. The wolves always loved [...]
“If I die again, just let me go”
Will made the mistake of asking Doobie Brother if he could remember what happened after he died. “Did you see anything? People say they have those kinds of experiences all the time. Bright light and all.” “I don’t remember anything. I never remember anything that happens right before a seizure,” Doobie said. “It’s just nothing [...]
Breath of Fresh Air
Their situation could not go on like it had been. Ricky watched from the sidelines as their marriage spiraled downward over the past three months until finally one night Janet broke down and let the waterworks loose. She buried her flour-covered hands in her face and was a mess when she came back up for [...]
The Devil Does You In – Part 2
When Caesar got angry, he was a scary man to be around. Bad things tended to happen to people when he got angry; typically people died. He was angry the other night when he discovered these two meth heads – boyfriend and girlfriend it turned out – had been involved in the robbery of one [...]
King of the Mountain
Daniel told himself to push. — push harder than he’d ever pushed himself before. He reminded himself of what his father once told him: don’t give in to pain. Be a real man. You can take it. But his arms felt like they were full of petroleum jelly; they were cramped from the already ten [...]
Summer Reading
When I was a kid, I hated the idea of summer reading. It was an affront to everything summer represented for a child that is off from school, spending care-free days in the backyard and vacations with the family. As I’ve gotten older and wiser (and have been to college and gotten that pesky English [...]
Eyeball
“And you see this? That’s the cornea. That’s what you’ve injured.” The doctor was kind and pointed to the model and explained everything to Daniel slowly. Daniel nodded his head continually. “We’ve already learned about the eye in science class.” He stood there silently for a second, unblinking. “Here’s the bad news: you have to [...]
Playing Possum
If there was one thing Will couldn’t stand, it was wildlife rooting around his backyard, driving Roscoe crazy. He’d seen raccoons a number of times hiding in the bushes and shooed them away with a broom. But this later invader, the possum, was another animal entirely. The coons might have been bold, but the possums [...]
Don’t Touch
It was a crowded in the galleries of the High Museum in Atlanta. An afternoon full of school children who ran about with their teachers on field trips, the kind of hot, stinky afternoons Frank hated the most at the museum. Kids were all over with sticky bodies going everywhere just waiting to get their [...]
The Cry of Freedom
The desert was an awful place to be lost. He wasn’t so much lost as he wandered in the madness of the heat, but it amounted to the same thing. hoped beyond all hope at night some nameless foe would come and finish the job his brother had not had the guts to do himself. [...]
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