He guessed he loved her He didn't know It was such a long time ago

The wild world is still wild. It waits for every chance to devour you. Just because you aren't looking for the same opportunity to pounce doesn't mean you are immune to anything. You can sit and think lovely thoughts in your…

...why just look at that line drawn against x,y coordinates at an angle of 45 degrees...

On seeing a photograph taken in Tennessee this morning of dawn unfolding over the sky like a fan of golden light and the land revealing itself below in a wide swath of infused green, I think how southern woods are different from northern. Everything in the South today is as…

The winter sun was going down and she watched it out the window.Light like shards of glass,time had melted.It took hold.She was held down by brown leather straps and she couldremember the smell of incense and little hands and little eyesof an infant cold on the bed.She…

Michael Caine is up my nose.Michael Caine is a sliver of fresh snow.Michael Caine is a white mustache.Michael Caine is a song. Michael Caine is churning through my veins.Michael Caine is blowing.Michael Caine is Cola.Michael Caine is gritty against my teeth.Michael…

“Are you my neighbor in 3D?” Was she?

As far as I knew it was just an old man and his wife who lived in this house, but not really. I mean if you had seen what every person on that block had, you would have realized that many lived there, well many beings.

“Time to check out,” I say looking at sailboats and surfers gliding on the blue Pacific from the open window of my hotel room in Venice Beach. I inhale minty incense and gaze down at a dark-skinned woman in a sombrero seated behind a cloth-covered fold

“Whup!” he said, as a lorry pulled up in front. ¶ “Here’s your lorry.”

-- Adultery I took her out to a drive-in movie and we had sex in the back seat of my car. Then went into the concession stand to get something sweet after so much sex, and everyone was in there doing the same thing, you could tell by…

He felt sick at heart, as if he'd just been told he'd been fired from a job to which he'd devoted 60 years of his professional life. And for no good reason; the profession no longer existed. It had slipped into obsolescence, like blacksmithing at the beginning of the…

"First we’ll get a good workout at the discotheque where my lady friend works. Don’t worry, she’s already arranged for a friend of hers to attend so you won’t have to suffer the indignity of being a third wheel."

It is with great sadness I announce the passing of Ann Bogle on February 28, 2023 after a brief illness. Ann was longtime contributor and editor of these pages and a champion of small press and emerging writers.I knew Ann since the late 1970's when she was an undergraduate…

Daylight and cold sensed as an abstract, a number in my mind. Air thin, polluted, lacking oxygen. But the Recyclers are at it again.

Imagine a morning without dawn, without daylight ... The night birds still hoot, the flowers wait for the light to change their make-up, black birds have locked their beaks. A morning unlike any other ... The moon above continues to reign over the milky way, the stars to…

Orchids strewn over the floor...