A housepainter is confronted by the sister of his deceased best friend.

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."

Fifty-seven poems reflecting my interest in baseball and those who played the game, major, minor and sandlot.

Twenty-Four poems about thoroughbred wagering ups and downs and some of the colorful and smitten individuals involved.

"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

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)...

Sailor goes home for a weekend with a shipmate and finds himself in a rather eccentric household.

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

This tale takes place in Virginia Beach in the sixties. Tom Wales works first at as a clerk at the Viking Hotel then as a bartender trainee at the Rathskeller Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge. Three women, one a cop, dramatically remodel his life.

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

Get a better idea of the Lofty of sketched in "Lydia: An Introduction." Further information about Lydia is included. Lofty's story stands on its own seven pages but why not take time to read the aforementioned title. This is the second piece crafted from a 9,600 word story accepted by Typeface a couple of years ago then abruptly scuttled two weeks later. Three more stories to follow. "Lofty: An Introduction was previously published by Irisi Magazine.

The Boss sends a worker on a mission and it's not to the corner store for a pack of cigarettes.(This story was once part of my Smashwords story, "Knucklehead the Cat."