"Legislation" is about a stop at a barroom that fuels a time travel return to the protagonist's hitch in the U.S. Navy by means of a quiz show on the bar TV. Show

Rock and Roll and Punk Music clash and Mark who fancies himself a songwriter finds hope when he meets Margo at the Prospect Pike Lounge. She has a friend named Alicka. . .

A bewitching coming of age tale involving two ninth-grade Catholic school kids that begins at Sunday Mass, grows while on a class trip to RI School of Design Museum.I am most grateful to The Rail (Derailleur Press), previous publisher of “The Cards that Bind.” 3/2020

Copperheads and Cary is a brief tale that follows a wise-cracking old man on his predawn morning walk that's nothing like any he's stepped before.I’m in raggedy jeans that have holes in the right cuff. I’m a kid with no chain guard on his bike. My dark blue hoodie is too big for me. My ten-buck Walmart sport shoes aren’t much to look at but they’re light. I’m a frigging fitness anti-fashion plate!I am most grateful to The Writer’s Egg Magazine, (Jade Elvina Hinde, Editor, UK)...

Two fiction flashes: "Electric" involves a business owner whose past shows up in a tavern and then leads him to a dive bar. "Rosyfeatures a landscape laborer's cultural education and an amazing escape.

The Correct Elevation details a hitchhiking trip a man named Denny embarks on after making a wager with a friend from his Navy days. The three people in the car that pick him up on Interstate 84 are an unusual trio to put it mildly. The Driver is a crass, chain-smoking woman. Her male companion is a perfect match. The preteen girl Denny shares the back seat with is a mystery to behold.I am most grateful to The Bosphorus Review, the previous publisher of this story, 7/12/2020.

Sensible for once, I opened a bank account after putting aside cash for an NBA adventure, train fare to Atlanta, and incidentals. I traveled in style, Amtrak roomette. I felt like a high roller checking into a Courtyard Marriott.

Dean Dawson, his girlfriend Clara and their friend Madame Chung, a restaurateur, focus on the year 1924 and the doings of a stranger named Howard.Once Upon A Crocodile Magazine, previously published this tale under the title “Dean and Clara Find Fault.”

An abusive priest sparks a chain of events that forges an unlikely alliance between Jimmy Crew and Troy Doran.Thanks to Blue Nib Literary Magazine (UK), the first publisher of "The Gifts of Troy," May of 2020

Career Choices is about repaying favors even if what's required to set things straight is illegal and riskier than any reasonable citizen would expect. Jim Laker and Robbie Rowel occupy he platforms on this sensitive scale.Many thanks to the previously publisher of this 1,134 word story, Once Upon A Crocodile, under the title The Missing Professional, 1/3/2019.

This 2,341-word account of one Trevor Shawl's nostalgic trip to the Uptown Downy Lounge is fraught with suspense, terror. Some characters in this tale will bring smiles, others are the stuff of 911 calls.I am most grateful to Between These Shores Literary & Arts Annual, previous publisher of "Hot And High At The Uptown Downy" under the title "The Heavenly Wrangler."

Sewage is a 2,359-word story that is dark as pitch. It is a tale that feeds on abuse, revelation, comeuppance, corruption, and conflagration.Close to the Bone, previously published "Sewage" under the title "Of Duck and Timex," May 15, 2019