Short Fiction

Joellin G.H. adopted a suicide dog named Zeek from Helping Hands Suicide Dogs to help here disabled father in his…

I'll never forget the event that lead to my eventual disappearance.  I came home from my math tutor and found…

The Sony Pictures hack has taken another crazy turn. This time into a totally unrelated industry, and corporate heads are…

One of the seniors worked in the produce dept. He seemed to have figured out how to get by working…

The boys heard that the new assistant store manager, was married to a lunch lady at their old grammar school…

The time. 1993. The place. A dept store receiving dock. The characters. Mr. Piff, the Operations Manager. Don, the LTL…

Photo by xlibber Doctors should know that prescribing certain blood pressure pills to overweight patients with excessive body body hair…

Photo By Walmart Corporate Each day at 3:30, the warehouse receiver sat at the gray metal desk to calculate the…

Pep’s Confusion Filter was printed in fancy blue letters across the side of the bottle. The men were drinking it…

There is no such thing as grape ice cream. The reason? It has a lot to do with dogs, girls,…

The boy carelessly lost the small rubber Godzilla figure from the car at an interstate rest stop. “Mom! Stop! My…

Apples of your cheeks should be called tomatoes of your cheeks because when you punch them they split open like…

T.S. Eliot wrote “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”  Four out of five people are obsessed with dead bears and…

Dear Mom and Dad, As you know, I moved far away. The town I live in now doesn’t have duck…

In 1994 or 1995 the patient had become a security guard at the local community college. The job was to…

1998. I asked a friend for help today moving some boxes. Nothing too involved, a couple boxes of paperbacks from…

Hot dogs originated in an area of Europe once known as Germany in a time when humans scavenged the leftovers…

Garlic makes the heart beat twice as strong.  When a vampire bites into the throat of a garlic eater, the…

“You Stoped A Hart.”  These words painted 20 years ago in red on the side of an overpass . Who…

I'm cornbread eating mad. I was at the fruit store looking for come jujuberries and this little girl starts looking…

Lozaq the father lived next door to us. He looked like a gentle child molester with light dog shit colored…

I grew in the ghetto of my town, but I never knew it until I read it in the paper…

I unscrewed it and drank the perfume from the unicorn’s horn. I was a little kid, but I knew better.

In college,  a professor asked the class why does the black community reject Michael Jackson?  (This was before MJ died…

My dog posed for a sketch.  I placed him on interview.  He is a French serial killer.  French is the…

Instead of saying sweet dreams, I say "Good night. I hope you don't have too many nightmares." Instead of saying…

Back then you could buy a tankful of feeder guppies for just a few cents.  You could pick up an…

Klaus described in great detail how he was going to engineer a car that ran solely on blood, human blood. …

A modern day translation of Ernest Hemingway's short story Hills Like White Elephants Hill related Ebrol long valley and white.

"Never get between a man and his coffee this early in the morning," said the man to his daughter. A…

There’s a new movie out called We Bought a Zoo. You may think it could never happen, but it already…

Tonight at the mall pet store I overheard a woman saying, “Rabbit, your nails are like hypodermic needles.  My arm!”…

Day 1: I woke up this morning to the sound of birds pecking inside of my walls, which was creepy,…

Don’t lie to kids or withhold the truth from them. Most little kids are smarter than you give them credit…

i had a dream about satan and some cave that had an outcropping in it that was carved to look…

Comes a time in a man’s life when he’s got to decide. Alligator or crocodile? Which will I be? I…

These were the final miles of a summer journey.  The four passengers consisted of the driver, the girlfriend,  the sister,…

I’m 97 years old, and I never heard of cancer until I was 12 years old.  My neighbor fell down…

I took my love to a gazebo. We drove past the gazebo. There were no giraffes by this gazebo. photo…

My son has a corn tooth.  That boy loves to eat it right off the cob like a little typewriter.

Ever taken a psychology class? I took one as a night class at a community college years ago. The professor…

I emerged this morning from the frost covered cardboard refrigerator box that I now call home. With my first steps…

It was 3 am and this was the second time her bladder had awoken her that night. She lay there…