She was built like a WWII tank, short but mighty in a square steely reliable way, complete with a dome of short cropped hair and…

“Why ask me that?” She turned away from him and he could sense she was about to swing her legs to the floor. “Don’t,” he…

Beatrice took both of Rowan hands, "Can we talk?" Rowan couldn’t believe her ears. Beatrice, her partner for 40 years, had spent the last 10…

I know you are reading this. Actually, I can see you reading, see you through the window behind the building of your condo. Your lovely…

Finally, I decided to give her my old fur coat, though I pretty much suspected she’d sell it for her daily fix, and so she…

Things went down for Gail - fast. Everyone saw it, she was no longer the working ranch woman who never seemed to get dirty driving…

Last year my sister asked me, “Did you always want to be a writer?” I looked up from my MacAir that morning, sitting at her…

Beauty as Truth Of all the shocks from Hitler’s Germany of 1933, the one that cut Agatha the deepest was Germany’s withdrawal from the League…

Sweet sticky substances, like honey and jam , and that scoop of ice cream falling off your cone and melting in the hot sun…these things…

What happened here? Here, in this flat, where I am living right no?. Well, I’ll start with here. Here in what I call my home…

In July 2025, in a big grassy park in Dublin, California, 500 plus people are gathered, holding signs that say, "Resist," "We Did This Already,"…

I do believe the purest definition of poetry is simply the magnificent way this earth we dwell on presents itself on every single day it…