It’s kind of a strange thing, really. My superpower. It’s a special kind of psychic power, a mind power. I must have been born with it, I think. The ability? It’s more than mind-reading. It’s the power to allow anyone… to read my mind. It’s the opposite of mind-reading. Perhaps “mind-telling” is a better way…
OFF-FREQUENCY
910 kHz He had the SUV’s abnormally sensitive AM radio tuned to a frequency well between the powerful nearby and clear channel stations. He sat with a fine view of a mid-January sunset over Satchyayuga County, waiting for his wife to emerge from her yoga class. It was the time of day when the distant stations…
THE ABANDONED TV
I saw it on a granite porch of sorts, as I walked the sterile disorder of crumbling masonry near the train station.An old Sony Trinitron. Resting face down, on its tube. I’d recognize it anywhere. Such an indignity for such a deathless companion! We used to have one in the den, back in the day…
THE WRECTOR
I met Giselle on the evening of the great Victory fireworks display, a pyrotechnic show of dubious timing, considering the unusually dry conditions of the Northeast then prevailing. You remember, the night of the Dumbarton Oaks fire, with the Capitol and the New Monument as backdrop? The, terrible, lingering fire that smoked all autumn, infusing…
AFFORDABLE ELDER CARE
Travel is perhaps the universal enjoyment of the Baby Boomer. After the hard work of adulthood and career, travel is the reward for us. As I happen to be among the youngest of the so-called Baby Boomers on our journey, it often falls to me to help some of the other voyagers with their things.…
SELF-INFLICTED WORLD 