It all started when I needed the fly swatter. The buzzing would stop for an instant, but I was always too slow to whack my nemesis. Amazing that anyone can make a bare-handed snatch of something with that many eyes.…
Category: Short Stories
The Chinese Checkers Murder
“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…
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…
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…