In Search of Excellence
Globally speaking, strange things are (indeed) afoot at the Circle K. Sometimes, when I fill my gas tank, I imagine Bill and Ted’s...
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- Nov 16, 2023
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Unbelievers
In cathedrals the faithful listen as robed prophets expound and gesticulate imparting exclusive knowledge. In cathedrals the faithful...
- Oct 19, 2023
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Sacrifice
Ray rose to another bone-chilling morning of drudgery and sacrifice. He grabbed his pick, kissed Nora and the baby on the forehead, and...
- Sep 14, 2023
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Ink Stain
I will stain you with my ink permanently, like velvet covers the window and shadows light, you will be inexplicably drawn, enveloped,...
- Aug 17, 2023
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Vengeance or Death?
With shaking hands, Emma sat at the roulette table and placed five ten-dollar chips on red 25. The color and number mirrored her rage and...
- Jul 13, 2023
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Cows on Maui
On the mountainside, cows roam unaware of potential volcano disasters. Their sweet lives of oblivious wandering makes me jealous of...
- Jun 15, 2023
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Quiet Pride
Angelica doesn’t want to awaken and listen to the other headstone angels who crumble to life at dusk. “This place is full of too many...
- May 11, 2023
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Wandering Home
I wandered over the quiet green swaying grass of hillside, along fence lines with rusted wire, tiny spikes waiting to bite me over...
- Apr 13, 2023
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Balded by Love
As a toddler, I loved Suzie Doll so much that the hair on the back of her head wore off and she was left with a scratchy, cropped,...
- Feb 16, 2023
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Winter Hideaway
When my great-uncle died, his white farmhouse remained unlocked. It was tucked back on a long gravel driveway up the road from my...
- Jan 12, 2023
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Indiana January
The sky I was born under hangs grey, suspended like a crushed velvet curtain strewn with pale cotton on an early cold January day. The...
- Dec 20, 2022
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The Crow - Banished
You have stayed too long like an unwanted houseguest perched in a dim back corner judging me in silence. I fed you the warm sustenance of...
- Dec 15, 2022
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Someday's Price
While she waited for coffee, Kaitlan stole glances at the silver-haired woman with black-rimmed glasses who sat in a booth reading her...
- Nov 22, 2022
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Ignorance Repeated
We repeat the mistakes of the past. Thin bony fingers extend from graves, wagging at us as if to say, “You should know better.” We repeat...
- Nov 10, 2022
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Chasm of the Heart
Christiana stood at the edge of the bridge, the sound of the thundering waterfall mirroring her heart. With her mother’s passing,...
- Oct 28, 2022
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Empty Beaches
retreating within, the girl leaps from the tall cliff into her own world she soars, arms outstretched, over her blue ocean soul tides...
- Oct 13, 2022
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The Maidens
A cough rattled in Katie’s chest as she strolled through Central Park on a brisk fall day. As she approached the Untermyer fountain,...
- Sep 27, 2022
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Frida
In the warm morning light, the artist sits at her easel. In constant dull pain, she strokes the brush loaded with vermillion, azure,...
- Sep 9, 2022
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Gift Season
Serena dusted off the chairs that sat on the sidewalk near the stoop. Empty since early summer, they sat silent, much as Serena had...
- Aug 15, 2022
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The Ghost of Alzheimer's
He is no longer himself a ghostly apparition who walks the halls confined by doors disconnected by the passage of time. Moments of...
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