Dust and Blue Smoke
Kennit Martin charged into the playground like a tumbleweed on a mission. "Hey Jeff!” he yelled, still thirty feet away from me. “Steenrud's bought a whole gallon of gasoline!” He gulped air. “I was at the post office when the creeper came! He said he's already put the wheels on!" I threw my boomerang down by […]
Preventative Maintenance
As I belly-crawled through the conduit, I saw my boss Matthews’ smiling face in my mind’s eye and regretted not fighting harder to get out of this assignment. “Why me?” I’d asked. “Why not you?” she’d countered. Surely a smaller, thinner, person would have been better suited for this job—that was why not me. Damned […]
A Distant Honk
The footprints were as big as my snowshoe, the narrow heel a crisp outline, the impression not more than a couple of hours old. The clown tracks beelined from the forest edge toward my campsite, then grew more erratic as they disappeared between dark spruce trees hunched under their winter burdens. I shuddered, picturing it […]
Summertime
It is a long lazy Irish day, as Irish days can be as June winds down its sails to be relieved on station by July, sun drifting over the horizon, taking forever to make up its mind to dip a toe in the ocean, haze dimming it to a scarlet blush as thoughts of you […]
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