Belle

The day started badly for me: the sun was shining the skies were cloudless and blue. I was at the golf course waiting for some friends to turn up. I was revved up and ready to go, but my mates were late, I kept glancing at my watch, waiting expectantly. loitered by the first tee, watching groups teeing off, when […]

The Distant Storm

Summer, 30 years ago, Keichi, Yamato Prefecture. I like some things just the way they are. The gentleness of the wind, the dampness of the moss, the black depths of the well. The buzz of the cicadas on tress.Your presence beside mine. The cut-up watermelon on the ceramic plates, the gentle ring of the wind chime. I like all of […]

Trouble Maker

The first time I met Will Decker, I was just eighteen and Dad had died. I was flunking out of school and also causing a lot of problems for my older sister, Kate. Well…I wouldn’t call it causing problems, I’d call it ‘reacting’. Reacting to a bunch of runt-faced, fuckwits who I am ashamed to call my peers.

A Cure For My Headache

It don’t even remember why I had a headache that day. But I did, and I was in a rotten mood because of it. When Jason called, I almost didn’t even pick up the phone. I had met Jas about a month or so ago. He had given me my first tattoo. we talked on the phone every day since […]

A ‘Perfect’ Stranger

Somehow, Autumn had snuck up on me. It seemed like just yesterday I was wearing sleeveless shirts, Capri pants, and sandals. The sun blazing from the crystal clear blue sky. The breeze, hot and heavy, full of humidity, that did little to cool you if one had to spend more than a few seconds outside. Heat so cumbersome, I could […]

A Baby for Tina

This is a work of fiction, and a collaboration between me and my fantastic husband, Brian. I wrote the first part, and Brian contributed everything from the beginning of the Bahamas section to the end of the story. I did my best to blend the two parts together as seamlessly as possible, but if the story seems like it was […]

‘Tis Better to Have Loved

“What’s this?” Jim asked, as he picked a small leather bound book up off of the nightstand. “It looks like the old man’s diary. He was writing in it quite a bit these past few days,” replied Robert, the other hospital orderly. “Well, what should I do with it?” questioned Jim.

‘Tis the Season

I love Christmas. Everyone is always so happy and jolly. There always seems to be endless supply of parties, that are filled with gift giving, eating and drinking. The holiday season is time of the year, when the American dream of overindulgence, at its absolute very best. Working in the financial district of NYC offers me plenty of perks this […]

“Text” Sex

Sean made his way home after another monotonous day at the office. He was practically humming with sexual frustration as his girlfriend Lena had been away for the last two weeks abroad, and Sean was someone who was used to sex at least twice a day. Driving home, he thought of all the things he wanted to do to her, […]

“That Fucking Advil”

My head was hurting something terrible. I really needed a fucking advil, that was for sure. The question was whether or not I could sneak out long enough for me to reach the car, where some advil was contained in the passenger compartment. We were all supposed to be enraptured with Don’s story, so my leaving might have been taken […]