Stories and Other Nonsense

Jul 2726 min read

Couples Counseling in a Make Believe World

1. Good fiction is self-sustaining. It’s an illusion with good bones, so to say. When you’re in it, you can poke it and pull it and sniff...

Apr 16 min read

The giants set them in the trees to dry

The giants set them in the trees to dry. What they were, the gatherers didn’t know. They couldn’t. The trees were too tall and they...

Mar 3011 min read

Sin Eater

The throbbing white neon lights at the doorframe of the decontamination chamber flickered. The hum fluttered and rose, settled and rose...

Mar 284 min read

The Stuttering Second

Occasionally, time stops for me. Or more, it stutters, replaying in a one second loop. I can’t do anything different. All I can do is be...

Mar 104 min read

Our Humans Lived Longer

“Our humans lived longer.” The sign is large with jarring orange text and includes a crude picture of a very fat, smiling human man. The...

Mar 102 min read

He visited each castle twice

He visited each castle twice. First as a minstrel. Then again, as a medicine seller. They loved the minstrel. The children cheered when...

Mar 77 min read

Wartime Magik

Women stopped giving birth in the hospital. Not long after the war had started, men in black fatigues began to stand quietly at the...

Mar 49 min read

blood blood blood

He had been bleeding for ten days. “Cuts don’t seal,” said the doctor to the military man. “But the blood never stops. Ought to be dead...

Oct 18, 20231 min read

Based on Your Recent Searches

Dear David, It’s our biggest sale of the year and we wouldn’t want you to miss out! Here are some great sale items we think you’d really...

Oct 17, 20234 min read

What Am I Thinking?

The man was a mess of old scars and freshly sealed wounds. An eye missing. One purple, flapping nostril, dangling like a blown tire. He...

Oct 11, 20232 min read

Every Bit of You

There was a wife who wanted to be a mother. She had a husband who did not want to be a father. As much as the wife begged, she couldn’t...

Oct 5, 20232 min read

Hell is a Self-Designed Website

As is tradition, I have successfully ignored this website for two years, so now I must give it more attention than it deserves. And in...

Oct 4, 202320 min read

The King of Camp Wabanaki

On a sunny Tuesday in June, Matt Finnigan met Arthur Finnigan at the baggage area of the Portland Jetport. “Good flight?” grunted Art,...

Oct 2, 20232 min read

Don't Hug Grandma Too Tight

I know you’re excited to see her, dear, but please don’t hug your grandmother too tightly. She’s very old, you see. Her bones are brittle...

Sep 21, 20233 min read

On an Unnamed Planet

When Nyubo awoke it was winter. A slate gray winter, more chill than cold, more frost than ice. The world was all slick and silver,...

Sep 12, 20232 min read

Puppy Teeth

Nan sent me down to the pet sematary. She told me to look for a wooden cross marked with the name Bandit. “It’s fresh dug,” she explained...

Sep 10, 20235 min read

The Sower

Four-ten seven spores. No. Four-ten eight. Four-ten eight. I must stop counting them. They will not multiply. They will not increase....

Sep 1, 20232 min read

All the Colors of the Moon

My great nan says the Moon used to be just one color. It was white, or cream, and I guess sometimes a little orange (and then a lot...

Apr 17, 202327 min read

You Don't Know Me at All

Riley Wakeland knew her name. She knew her mother’s face. She knew the smell of her grandfather’s tractor when it first started and she...

Apr 4, 202359 min read

The Cat in Quarantine

The raccoon is smiling at me. He’s standing on the windowsill leering at me. The moon is at his back and all I can see is white teeth and...