Oct 12JeremyIt was twenty minutes before midnight when Jeremy Winslow and Sharon Gates removed Melissa Hartman’s naked body from the trunk of his car. Together, they carried her toward the fence. Struggling to lift her up, they tossed her over to where old man Wes Guthrie’s pigs laid close by. “You…Flash Fiction3 min readFlash Fiction3 min read
Aug 14MiltonThe thinnest wire Milton Krane could find now stretched tightly across the top step of the staircase. Now all he had to do was wait. Beatrice was still in bed snoring up a storm as she always did. Milton was an early riser, up at five-thirty every morning whether or…Flash Fiction4 min readFlash Fiction4 min read
Jul 24Labor DayIt was Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer and Ben and Barbara Mangold were hosting their annual neighborhood summer ending barbeque. Joe Morgan had taken over the burger and hot dog cooking duties, leaving Ben to sit and nurse a cold beer while staring at his wife, Barbara. She…Short Story3 min readShort Story3 min read
Jul 10Brooklyn TalesMy new collection of short stories is now available as a eBook on Amazon. Only .99 cents! Six short stories all with one thing in common… BROOKLYN Stories include… The Guys from Bensonhurst Big Carmine Norman The Dream is Over I Ain’t So Tough The Butcher’s KidShort Fiction1 min readShort Fiction1 min read
Jul 3The ClosetThe winters can be cruel in New York. This year has been especially brutal, with long bouts of freezing temperatures and more snow than predicted, and it is only March. …Short Story6 min readShort Story6 min read
Jun 23The WriterI am a minor talent. I don’t claim to be anything else. And that may be an exaggeration. Authors as diverse as King, Vonnegut, Heller, Melville, Steinbeck, and Christie have nothing to fear. I won’t be stealing their thunder. At best, my books will end up in second-hand bookstores selling…Flash Fiction2 min readFlash Fiction2 min read
May 14The Wedding ReceptionI never understood… We seemed to get along, and always enjoyed having lunch together discussing books, movies, and music. Of course, those activities were never together. We were work buddies only, though I yearned for something more than table talk in the cafeteria. …Wedding5 min readWedding5 min read
Mar 24The Homeless WomanMichael Alden had taken two sips of the hot coffee he just purchased as he exited the Belmont Cafeteria and turned left to walk toward his office. It was a frosty February morning, and the remains of last week’s snowfall were still visible. …Fiction3 min readFiction3 min read
Feb 8A Regular GuyOctober 15th Hello Susan, I’m texting you because I have been following you on Instagram and though we’re not really friends, I wanted to say I like you and think you are beautiful. I hope that does not sound strange, but you can learn a lot about people from just…Short Story6 min readShort Story6 min read
Jan 23Creativity Comes From…Creativity comes from many sources and directions: newspaper articles, movies, dreams, travel, photographs, talking to others and more. Writers observe as do photographers and other artists. To me, that is the key to creativity… observation. You see something, you hear something and that gets your creative juices flowing. I have…Creativity3 min readCreativity3 min read
