A few pages, sort of

Small stories, written down.

A good story well told can bring ineffable truths to life. I don't know if any of my writing qualifies as either, but my hope is that they reflect some small truths about myself and the world as I see it. I mostly write poetry and short fiction, when the mood strikes. Nothing here is striving for literary greatness; it's just some stuff that falls out of me sometimes.

Short Fiction

Manifest

The light breaking over the flat midwestern plains at dawn does not brighten gradually, as it did over the forested hills of New England, back home. Here the dawn happens all at once, an explosion of light tearing open the sky at 7:35am with the rigid punctuality of the clock's cuckoo…

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