My Top 5 Favorite Female Vocalists (2023 Version)
I grew up with a mom who was a vocalist. I'm sure at some point when she was growing up she had aspirations of singing professionally, but she ended...
The Specter of Red Dog Road
Up in Harlan, Kentucky, there’s an old backroad called “Red Dog Road” and you don’t never want to get lost on it. Locals will tell ya there’s all...
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 Jokes Friday 2:00 AM on COMEDY 1 hr TV-14 Wannabe stand-up comics from West Virginia check each other for ticks after working an open mic night...
Barn
Gray bones, having defied weather of an uncertain century, prop the structure with proud erectness. Dusty tobacco, its earthy cologne, in prominent...
The Nail
The nail resists being struck folding at the impact is straightened and hit again buckling and bending into its own shape eventually pounded and...
Forever Burning Fire
Life is a forever burning fire from which the flame of you fleetingly flickers; before, in a flash, separating and spiraling into its own...
fence
a wooden line of lovers like rotting fence posts each stake more weathered and hollow than the previous until the last completely broken and serving...
Jack o’Lantern
When she carved the pumpkin her hands sunk deep into it then, as she scooped the flesh, she thought of the murder– how the face went soft, yet...
Jackson
Murder at midnight. Scarlet taillights drape a bloody sheet over the Oldsmobile’s cold, green skin. Undercover crickets in the foggy pasture,...
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...