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Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Family

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Talbert's GenealogyChapter 2With Veteran's Day festivities safely tucked away for another year and his right pinkie under control, Talbert returned to his temporary, part-time job at Harris and Forthright Accounting Services where he crunched numbers for wealthy clients. To ensure continuation of his unemployment checks, the ... More..

Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Satire

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Talbert's Genealogy (From my satiric novel, Osama Among Us: SightingsChapter 2 With Veteran's Day festivities safely tucked away for another year and his right pinkie under control, Talbert returned to his temporary, part-time job at Harris and Forthright Accounting Services where he crunched numbers for wealthy clients. To ... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Good-bye

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A Farm in IllinoisWe built a farm in Illinoisand the land delivered us,nestled in hills of cedar and white oak,railroad tracks bolted against a riverlevee, floods of expectation.I loved a farm in Illinoisand a Chicago woman whowhipped fallow fields into fruited plains,brocades of lilac, wild artichokes,sunflowers at the river... More..

Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Science fiction

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MaMa Memory and the Howler Monkey Boys (Absurdity in a Post-Human World) Chapter 1 Alexis Honeycutt was the most curious Human I ever met, a blend of humility and bravado with a dash of intellectual conceit. The details of our initial meeting remain unclear because the stopgap meansures were in effect at the time. No one exa... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Father

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My Father is Dying AgainMy father is dying again andI return homethe good sonto mow the front yardstartled at the dandelion invasion.Mother wrings her handsstares out the kitchen windowat retreating faces.I hit her with talkof the dandelion problem,Ortho, we agree, the key.Father lies prone on aposturpedic mattress,his gray h... More..

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Family memories

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Runner Mother screams "Go!" and I bound out the screen door, jump off the porch, and careen down the street toward the grocery store before she can holster her index finger. I glance back at my two brothers piled on the porch steps cheering me on. "Run, Buddy, run," they yell in unison, my legs churning under me like windmill... More..

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Desire

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Cafe Talk We're sitting in Tijuana Style, a Mexican restaurant with high beams and ceiling fans that rotate too slowly to disperse a mad mix of cilantro and the cheap cologne of Mexican waiters. Mariachi music drifts in the dining room from the bar. Everyone at our table, including the amateur stripper from Captain Creams, i... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Politics

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Letter from the Front, Orange County My neighbor's wife is pregnant, she miscarried years ago, so this child is redemption. We've fixed our opinions on abortion, everyone's pro family, Republican, with a dash of Taoism tossed in for balance. We're convinced our lives will end without trauma, perhaps comatose in bran flakes... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Saying goodbye

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To MadelineWe stop for lunch in red rock countryat your prized Mexican cafe nestled among Mormons,order tacos smothered in piquante sauce.We pretend you're still with us.Outside, nothing moves,it's hot, maybe three digits, so citizenswait inside stone houses for the long shadows.My wife finally says whatwe've avoided. "I miss... More..

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Murder

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Malfeasance During the rainy season, water seeped into the garage through a gaping hole in the shake roof, which I never got around to repairing. I continued to work, rain or shine. What was the point of not working? I asked myself this question often in those days of my midwife crisis. Without work, how would I live? My wife... More..

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