“You’ve lost your marbles!” Sondra told George, her father’s long-time lover. “He was an old man like you — 68. He died of a heart attack or heart failure. Don’t let your emotions go wild.” She was sitting in the kitchen, breathing…
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The Arroyo
Image by Lynn Underwood Rebecca guided the buckboard down into the arroyo, the “highway” back to Rattlesnake Gulch. The problem of Josiah weighed on her heart. On that terrible day, three months earlier, she had torn desperately at Josiah’s pants…
Brenda Ueland on Chekhov and Passions
“Yet it is consoling that if [Chekhov] did not know all about cruelty, gluttony, cowardice, coldness in himself, he could not have written about them. Great men feel and know everything that mean men feel, even more clearly, but they…
Haiku Lament
Awake in the night, Haikus on the brain. Cheap words. Hard to get them right. Hard to get them right, Hard to make them beautiful. Life too can fall flat. Life too can fall flat Trying for the beautiful. So…
Rattlesnake Gulch
The cowpoke rode into town on a broken down horse, wearing a shabby Stetson and a greasy, ragged duster coat. Except for the tarnished silver spurs over his nondescript boots, no one would have paid him any heed. He hitched…
Budding Intellectual: A Vignette
He was two years old and the world was his oyster. Sunday morning, nine o’clock mass. A young couple settles in front of us. Tall, dark haired father with corduroy jeans; blond mother, hair held back with a hair-band — no time…
Banded Together: A Ghost, a Paper Route and a Rubber Band
By Eric Beversluis Originally published at medium.com. Rev 2020-08-03 Image:Albert Payson Terhune 1872–1942 collection, Special Collections, The Elihu Burritt Library, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain. Modified: EHB. * * * When I started delivering morning newspapers from…
Review of A Crime in Holland (Maigret)
A Crime in Holland by Georges Simenon My rating: 2 of 5 stars I was eager to try a Maigret mystery. Not only is the name so well known, but I recently viewed an old Maigret movie which finds Maigret…
The House With Nobody In It
Have you ever driven past one of our modern ruins—a factory, a barn, a farmhouse—and wondered about its story—the people, their possibilities, their passions? I read an article with 85 photos by Johnny Joo in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, photos…
Review of Sibella Giorello “Raleigh Harmon Mysteries”
The Mountains Bow Down by Sibella Giorello My rating: 4 of 5 stars This whole series is quite enjoyable. After writing five novels about Raleigh Harmon as a geology-loving FBI agent, Giorello wrote three prequels featuring Raleigh as a precocious,…