Her nose had been broken once, and perfectly. By everyone’s measure, Cidaris Musz is the most beautiful creature to matriculate Caliyuga University since its conception, buried deep in our colonial past. Her looks may be characterized in many ways but never accurately or consistently described by anyone. She looks different to every camera. The problem of…
THE TWELVE STEPS OF CHRISTMAS
A Christmas Carole i After a decade and two years without a drink, Harry Partridge awoke thirsty. On this morning, the dawn of his 50th birthday, he drove Moira to the train and returned to his quiet house and chose this time to reinforce his coffee with the simple, clarifying taste of Irish whiskey. A “Little…
QUARANTINE ISLAND
PART ONE: QUARANTINE ISLAND “You ain’t going anywhere, today. We ain’t.” “Why’s that?” “There’s no flights going to New York.” “Newark, then?” “Nix, man. No place. No where. No York, No Newark. No Wark. No… Body.” I shifted to the other desk. “What about you?” Still no. I ventured over to HeronAir. “You guys going?”…
SELF-INFLICTED WORLD
Three new moon lets and everybody apprehensive and talking, sparking conversations with perfect strangers, the intimacy of the truly novel. The weather is a peculiar hot. The sun presses on you and it's like the air is boiling into existence, transitioning from a hot organic broth into a gas still too hot to be actually…
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…
SELF-INFLICTED WORLD 