She’d be sitting alone, smoking a cigarette or drinking a glass of red wine in some sparsely-populated bar somewhere uptown, staring into the strained and obvious light.
Inevitably, some guy with beer nuts and Budweiser on his breath would accost her with some line like, “Let’s be laughing together next year,” and flash her a smile [...]
Her mother yelled, “You were an accident! I would’ve had an abortion if I could have!”, and this was like the warden telling the innocent prisoner, “Our mistake, you’re free to go.” Now she would have to answer to no one.
She wept with the joy of release. “Thank you, mother.” She choked on her sobs. [...]
(based on the painting Peach Tree in Bloom at Arles, C. 1888, by Vincent Van Gogh)
There is a boy. The boy is standing in front of a munificent peach tree in all the splendor and atrophy of his afternoon existing. Shadows? Yes. There are midday shadows, hiding and seeking, long and greyish to offset the [...]
He came from the sun looking for darkness, or at least a little shade. All he wanted was to rest his eyes for a bit, which is why he chose the Earth – darkness abounds.
His incandescent wings took him just outside a California orchard where he walked in the cooling shade of a grove of [...]
The ribbon of pavement winds steadily ahead, in and out of an unwavering presence that humbles us all. The Texas humidity and our skepticism roll away as we rise higher among the mountains and drift farther South. Hushed birds, not flapping as though on schedule, but soaring between layers of heat and wind sail against [...]
PENNSYLVANIA SENATE
PASSES RESTROOM
EQUALITY RESOLUTION
By LARRY CENTOR
HARRISBURG, Pa. – The Pennsylvania Senate has passed a resolution calling for equal restroom facilities for heterogeneous and homogeneous individuals along the state’s toll roads.
By a 33 to 14 vote, with two abstentions, the Senate passed the Restroom Equal Access Measure, or REAM as it usually referenced. “We feel it’s [...]
I am a jealous lover, and this morning I searched through the pockets of the trousers you left at my house, looking for any evidence of infidelity I could pin on you; I always enjoy grilling you with my suspicion, but when I found the poem in your pocket I felt a thrilling new anguish. [...]
“The Evolution is complete. You are finished!”
Adam rose and gazed at his perfect fingers. Eve stroked the silky strands of her golden hair as she lay in the lush, green grass of Eden.
“How did you create us?” asked Adam with wonder.
“With all the love in my heart . . . and a little help from [...]
After hours of walking, jumping, climbing, sliding, riding and eating, she still had it in her to ride the one and only Rollo coaster at Idlewild Amusement Park. A 1938 classic wooden coaster. Sure…it isn’t the Demon Drop or Magic Mountain, but it was a big deal to her. We waited in line as her [...]
Chris’s grandfather had been adamant all those years ago. “Real men don’t carry umbrellas, and don’t use hair dryers, ”the retired Sergeant-Major had said. Chris was certain that his grandfather would believe that real men did not color their hair. Chris’ older sister colored her hair and his grandmother had colored her hair a purplish [...]
