Monthly Archives: August 2012

Word Count:  358 Somewhere in the darker rooms of the mind are stored bad memories fed by years of fear. With time they grow up and scratch at their gray-mattered walls. The psychiatrist was helping me, bit by bit, to … Continue reading →

Word Count: 459 “Not now, Timmy, I’m making dinner. Go ask your father.” “Let me just sit and relax a minute, will you, son? I’ve had a hard day.” “Come on…please? Pleasepleaseplease? You guys are always too busy to play … Continue reading →

Word Count:  385 He was hot and cranky in his Mr. Peanut costume and he still had one more gig to go. St. Lawrence’s school up in Rochester. It was already 2:30 p.m. when he got there a half hour … Continue reading →

Word Count:  344 “Did you kill it?” she asked him. “Yes,” he replied. She meant the spider; he meant the fly. He knew that, of course, but said nothing. “I swear,” she said, climbing down off the chair in the … Continue reading →