A Hollywood Life Unattained
Reflecting on the missed opportunities of my early career as a Hollywood actor. Not many people know I was the original James Evans on the hit 70s...
New Cable Exploitive Southern Reality Show Lineup
Tick JokesFriday 2:00 AM on COMEDY 1 hr TV-14Wannabe stand-up comics from West Virginia check each other for ticks after working an open mic night...
Barn
Gray bones,having defied weatherof an uncertain century,prop the structurewith proud erectness. Dusty tobacco,its earthy cologne,in prominent...
The Nail
The nailresists being struckfolding at the impactis straightened and hitagain bucklingand bendinginto its own shapeeventually poundedand...
Forever Burning Fire
Life is a foreverburning firefrom which theflame of youfleetinglyflickers; before,in a flash,separating andspiraling intoits ownextinguishment. ...
fence
a wooden line of loverslike rotting fence postseach stake more weatheredand hollow thanthe previousuntil the lastcompletely broken andserving no...
Jack o’Lantern
When she carved the pumpkinher hands sunk deep into itthen, as she scooped the flesh,she thought of the murder–how the face went soft,yet wide-eyed...
Jackson
Murder at midnight.Scarlet taillights drapea bloody sheet overthe Oldsmobile’scold, green skin. Undercover cricketsin the foggy...
Choices
You never asked togive, nor I to take.These, our forced cattlebranding at birth. The advantage was mine.Wrapped in silken, milky skin,blur of a...
Sandal Dust
You are the fourth naildull, twisted and corrodedpiercing the watery heartpushing through the spinesplintering the wooddelivering the poison likea...
The Pursuit of Warmth
He pushed thebent, iron pokerinto the coalsthe way a manpushes his words intoa conversation heknows nothing about.Mindlessly scootingthe scorching...
The Things We Do
The scant, gray roomWhere you forced me to liveMe, like a foxSilken, amber furWith hungry teeth I imagined escaping youThat cool, spring morningIn...