There were three of them. There were four of us, and April lay on the campsite and on the river, a mixture of dawn at a damp extreme and the sun in the leaves at cajole. This was Deer Lodge on the Pin...Full Article
My mothers parents came from Hungary, but my grandfather was educated in Germany. Even though Hungarian was his native language, he preferred German to all the other languages he spoke. It seems he wa...Full Article
Leave him alone I yelled as I walked out of the orphanage gate and saw several of the Spring Park School bullies pushing the deaf kid around. I did not know the boy at all but I knew that we were abou...Full Article
I walked into the Huddle House restaurant in Brunswick, Georgia and sat down at the counter as all of the booths were taken. I picked up a menu and began to look at the various items trying to decide ...Full Article
At ten years old I could not figure out what it was that this Elvis Presley guy had that the rest of us boys did not have. I mean, he had a head, two arms and two legs, just like the rest of us. Whate...Full Article
There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or maybe a month before the orphanage tu...Full Article
Double or Nothing on the nine? Sure, you call it. Bottom right. He had already potted the nine in his head, but now, since Ji...Full Article
One day, everybody was talking about it. It had even been printed in the newspapers. A great and learned sadhu had prophesized a conflagration, a natural disaster of such proportions that more than ha...Full Article
The editor on the phone was being pragmatic. Denny, I dont for a minute believe that this is The Knife, but Im not going to be the National Enquirer editor who passed on the biggest story of the centu...Full Article
Lucky was pregnant again. Paul always knew first. He stroked her and felt her distended belly. Mum, Luckys having kittens again. He was always right. He wondered if she should be neutered. He wasnt qu...Full Article
Paul plays with the image of his sisters doll. It is difficult to remember what Bessie looked like before he sacrificed her to the darker gods of his temper. He remembers how the red hot poker seared ...Full Article
