Conleth Ferris tossed a cigarette end to the yard. He coughed, then swallowed the phlegm, imagined the inside of his...
Life From a Garden Fence A wooden rain barrel— weathered and worn— slowly bleeds sweet elixir in drips and drabs...
Gyrification There will be time for waiting Enough. Too much Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa watching. Consider the river’s meanders that more and more...
An abridged version of “Fifty-Pence for the Meter” was broadcasted on BBC Radio 4 as part of their Short Works...
Rhona started leaving nearly every night after Aonghas was asleep, like she had the night The Silence had begun. There...
What comes up from underground? The youngsters would ask when starting their long journey to the ritual grounds. Their hooved...
My mother told me to mow the lawn. I refused. I pointed out that to raze the grass, to behead...
There’s a certain point you get to, in middle age or thereabouts, where you start asking yourself questions about times...
The first and only time Lucien roasted a whole pig he had cranked the spit for hours. The pig barn...
TO THE RABBIT I KILLED ON THE ROAD THIS MORNING When I am dead as you are dead, struck down...
Someone, or something, was stealing Jopson’s apple-blossom. Three small apple trees in pots stood on his front path. A supermarket...
June 18, 2021 – from The Croft in Boyne City, Michigan My check engine light came on last night while...