You're gonna have to hold on tight, because this rodeo is just getting started.
Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.
Wendy’s house, unlike many in Cape Breton, had three floors, along with a basement and attic. Aside from Wendy’s bedroom, there was a laundry room. The dirty water in the sink would rush from the wash...
Alford, Massachusetts: Mandy stood there with her old Nikon film camera, snapping photo after photo of the rural landscape. It was difficult to describe the wonderful feeling of there not being a sing...
This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on the outskirts of town. Then one day there was an accident... something escaped from the factory, a...
I wish I could run away, Rudger told Jersey as they both rushed in and out of various patients’ rooms, darting around like little ants. I can’t leave and be on my own though, not right now, anyway.Why...
A scattering of pinpoint lights shows up in the blackness ahead. A town or village straddling the highway. The indicator on the speedometer begins to lose ground. The man glances in his mirror at the...
He was both her hero and enemy. She was his best student and biggest regret.
This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt...
It's one thing to develop a nostalgia for home while you're boozing with Yankee writers in Martha's Vineyard or being chased by the bulls in Pamplona. It's something else to go home and visit with the...
What happens when you pray for an angel and get a vampire instead? R E Mullins