Flash Fiction

Down There

Another night of poor sleep. Ever since lockdown started it gets harder. We went to bed around eleven, and within…

5 years ago

To Everything a Season

I never thought eBay would contribute to my grieving journey, but then I’d never heard about Mourning Seeds until my…

5 years ago

Oh, Jump, and I’ll Come to You, My Love

To run with white horses, white horses, white horses. Oh, how I long to ride them with you. Because the…

5 years ago

The Heredity of Memory

She hasn’t known me for years; instead of throwing hugs she just casts spears, her careworn face now lined with…

5 years ago

Owen Come Home

Sometimes in July, when the wind cries in the right direction, I hear a tremulous calliope sighing across the flats.…

5 years ago

The Rime of the Brackish Mariner

The wind speaks in Roquebrun. A labyrinth pond there I once fished as a boy, where darting, infant mullet kissed…

5 years ago

Breaking the Seal

As Provost, I found myself in that agreeable position rare of antiquarian scholars in that my summer was unplanned. I…

5 years ago

Beachcomber

Old Tom, hunched over in a seafront shelter of baby blue wood and stippled white concrete, stared over the salty…

5 years ago