Raindrops as big as wine gobblets broke on Sam's shoulders and balding head as he watches Vicki's car's taillights fade into the forested darkness. The car rounds a curve and is gone leaving Sam in a vast old-growth forest. "Sam…

Danae watched Maeve out of the small cottage window. Watched her bend to the chores, shoo a nipping sheep away from her shirttail flapping in the stiff, Scottish sea breeze. Even though it was almost summer, Danae's "blood hadn't adjusted."…

We got settled into my car and headed for London. Jean Pierre didn't have to be in Oxford for five days but he had a buddy doing a similar program who was staying with a family in London. That was…

I’m going through a closet of clothing. It’s my closet. I am a woman of 76. There is a mirror to look at myself in. I don’t look. I take a garment off the hangar. My wedding dress from my…

I couldn’t define specifically how or why, but I knew from experience that distributing our new film, The Dreamers and I, would not be simple. Not long ago, while having dinner in a restaurant with a bunch of people to…

We knew that a certain kind of person, one on President Scott’s List of Internal Enemies, which was a long list indeed, had snuck out to Canada and Mexico and further abroad. They were excoriated as traitors, cowards and deserters.…

Baking whoopie pies Doing long division Waiting for something to happen Growing eggplant Docking the boat Getting older and dealing with chin hair Cleaning old linoleum Avoiding processed foods Exercising every day Waiting for an email Reading Faulkner Picking cactus…

What is simple? Ah, if only....but the beauty and the curse, both existing at the same time, is that life is both a curse and a total beautiful blessing...and for whatever reason the Powers that Be made us be this…

It began with an annoyance, the type that reminds you of the encroachment of age and the too-fleeting retreat of one's youth. An ache when rising from a chair, a reach that causes a sharp pain and pull when it…

Trent stares through the grimy window on the 55 headed downtown. He lets his head bounce against the window, letting the city pass without judgment. He watches a mom in a heavy hooded puffy jacket struggle with her puffy jacketed…

applying to the academy getting past the guards just trying to make it, finds out her guardian has been controlling her with a collar "It will not be simple." "I know." A long pause yawned and stretched as best it…

The day Nicole offered a ride to the hitchhiker, she made believe it was to help this woman who was too ignorant to know that hitchhiking was dangerous. The truth was, Nicole needed an audience. She was headed into a…