Fiction Friday: Indirect Objects Part 2
Fire, light, power, control, and, oh yes, the missing link of sex. You were wondering if I’d ever get there? I remember when we got a visit from a social worker after I was found with drawings of a teacher I had passed to another boy in sixth grade. I had drawn her...
Fiction Friday: Spared Parts – Part 1
Usually there’d be a few dozen ears spread out on the white counter sorted out by size and complexion near a jumbled heap of them, as though someone had been called away from a grisly game of solitaire. I’d usually scoop them up in a box, pretending I thought they had...
Fiction Friday: Spared Parts – Part 2
Read Part 1 Here We both have had a rough ride getting here, you and I. You know, put through the grater by friends and family. From middle school through high school, I was an easy target for ridicule or pity. I had a toad’s complexion but lacked an amphibian’s...
Fiction Friday: The Begging Bowl – Part 1
If it were not for the story he told me that day, I would have remembered him for his eyes. Each gasp of speech and great gulping for breath set them aquiver like sun-glint green apples on the surface of twin cisterns—two yellow-tainted, claret-crazed chamber pots...
Justifying the Use of Lethal Force in the American Heartland
Last week, Cincinnati Zoo Director Thane Maynard deliberated for over 10 minutes before he ordered the fatal shooting of Harambe, a silver-back gorilla, after a 3-year-old boy had climbed into Harambe’s enclosure and been “taken captive” by the gorilla. It was a...Buy The Book
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