Trooper Proctor took the stand, and everything about him was wrong. His oblong face was marked by anger—not that he seemed particularly angry at this…

Much to say about the word "wisp".....short for "whisper" immediately comes to mind...which brings further to mind the idea that if you want to get…

I both like and love The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Not because I read it in high school, when it was assigned. I…

Eating bagels in the morning meeting because they're provided for free. Applauding when the plane lands because everyone else is doing it. Answering "fine" when…

This old beast of a man, 2024, walks hunched over under his filthy ragged cloak like every mean ogre in every tall tale. Over his…

The women stared at the debris, stirred up by the storm. Twigs and branches were gnarled into each other, like a giant’s bird’s nest resting…

The sun was down, but her own heat had only risen higher, as a cooler night promised an adventure in a place she knew she…

I think my great character fault – well, one of them, anyway – was that I had no dream. I mean I had no hell-bent,…

We are all limited by what we think we deserve .....and when it comes to the knowledge of our futures, we are all limited by…

We don’t seem to like one another very much anymore in America. Not like we did before COVID, and not like we did before Trump.…

Oh for one true sentence. That may not even have been an actual sentence. Hemingway said it. I think I was sitting in the library…

Maybe it was less than two weeks ago, more like 10 days. We took Guinness, my long-haired black cat with a bit of white on…