Nothing matters anymore. Nothing since that day.
Sitting in a car at the end of the road. Watching the trains on the track stop, let people off. Pick people up. Then go again. Until the next one comes, stops, drops …
No one sells door to door anymore. That’s why I was surprised when my doorbell rang and a young man with red hair and freckles stood on my stoop holding an array of mops.
I wasn’t sure I should open …
This party was fucking awful. Everyone lost in an alcoholic, and probably some pill infused trance. College parties are such a joke. She took my hand, and I follow. She was the reason for being here. Surrounded by dozens of …
Vera climbed into her favorite spot behind the house, the branches of the large maple tree, a place of solace. Birds sang, the wind blew through the fields of grass surrounding their property, she breathed in the smell of blooming …
Monday
Mum’s shopping bags split and the frozen dreams, the pre-cooked hopes tumble out onto the kitchen floor.
Tuesday
In the bathroom I find her searching in the medicine cabinet peering in-between the pills, lotions, cremes looking for a miracle …
My father walks through the door. The volunteer fire department’s noon alarm test announces his arrival. Mother has lunch on the table: tuna sandwich with pickle and potato salad. I am home because it is winter recess, what Father insists …
“Give me the lenses!” Fiero screamed with bloodshot eyes after hearing the suppressed and professional, “I’m sorry, but we just can’t let you walk out with them today,” for the thousandth time. Those words were fertilizer to the thicket of …
The steamed windows told Officer John Sheehan that the Ford was occupied. Call for backup? His squad was taking Code-Ten at the Baptist Church. Every year the congregants cooked Thanksgiving dinner for the police, fire fighters, and paramedics who had …
I took up wrestling so I could be blessed. That’s what happens in the Bible. Jacob wrestles an angel till dawn, then the angel dislocates Jacob’s hip but blesses him and his offspring for eternity. I figured if that’s how …
In Sunday School Miss Hooker fell out of her big blue chair, too much Jesus maybe, so we helped her up, my classmates and I, as she’s been trying to help us up and out of sin and especially out …