A New Dawn
Don was awoken early by a familiar pain in his left knee. He rubbed the swollen joint as he sat upright in bed. Sighing, he glanced at…
Stories Poems Essays
The CFO
The objective of the meeting with Knowles Sanderson was to present the fourth quarter financial outlook for the General Disc Corporation. These projections were of vital importance…
Grand Design
An insistent voice brought me out of the void and darkness. “What is your name? Where are you?” My eyes opened to see a…
The Downside, The Upside, The Dark Side
I’ve been waiting for you. Patiently waiting among the sepia pages and crisp black and white edges.
Mother Knows Best
The call I was expecting came just after two o’clock on a blustery March afternoon. Instead of going home after my meeting…
Obsession
Addiction is an obsession. It takes over mind, body, and soul. It seeps into your pores, hides between your toes, collects in the corners of your eyes and under your nails.
Bachelor Party
Sometimes it comes in fits and starts and sometimes all at once in a deluge, but when you’re edging thirty years old, riding passenger…
The Sunporch
“Your garden is like a park,” my mother-in-law would say when she came to visit us in Wisconsin from her home in Canada. It was a…
Bipolar, Diagnosis – Two Poems
The doctor adjusts his glasses, tells me the news. There isn’t much else. I leave the muted-colored office and beat my hands on the steering wheel.