Stories and Poems
Busker
Peaked green woolen cap clamped over spilling shaggy ringlets, goat-eyed, crude lips puckered amid the curled fire of his beard, he heaves into reed pipes, while his Jack Russell dances on stiff hind legs, tongue lolling. A third of the soot-grimed sidewalk they...
Exit Ramp
For my teenage brother in a stolen Chevrolet,the exit ramps ahead were all possibilities,potential tangents boogying off into sunburned pasturessurging toward an edgy, darkening horizon. He gave himself a free ride nowwith the whoopee wind whistling his tune,with...
Stepping Off
Sunset sips away its light from Gunderland Park, while the lynx-eyed blond girl in drill-bit curls waits to see which goose-pimpled one of us has the mustard to hurl himself off the cliff into the shallow river already pocked with stars. My little brother licks lips...
The Dragon’s Cook
A dragon named Fume lived in the mountainous dukedom of Etbourg. He was over three hundred years old, the size of an overweight pony, often bit his front claws (nerves), and had leathery wings that squeaked when he flew. His price for not raiding the countryside was...
Flutter Fruit
Cody’s hospital room smelled of chlorine and peppermint. I waited while the nurse in a pink smock injected medicine into his IV drip. She wished me a nice day and left. I crossed two fingers and pressed them against my witch’s mark, the red mole on my neck. “Hecatee,...
Whistle Pig and Ale
Jaella was translating Arabic ghazals into English when she felt Nagdaddy’s cringing terror, the spasm squeezing through her stomach. With her hands pressed against her belly, she crept to the room’s window–its lace curtains rippling inward on the warm breeze–and...
Magic and Murder Among the Dwarves
Is Amanda’s psychic ability a blessing or a curse? Recently widowed, she moves to a mountain town to quietly grieve and to live a normal life. But her neighbors, who never come above ground until after dark, ask her to find a missing baby, then to solve a gruesome...
Watermelon Knights with Trueberry Hearts
Whether this is the first story you’ve ever read about an Iguana, a Texas Toad and a Swamp Rat, or just another one of many, be prepared for a new perspective on the world: one that conquers it from very close to the ground. And chuckles while it pokes it with a sharp...
Erik Bundy
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