All poems and stories

  • Monsters, a short story

    Monsters are real.   They live among us.   You need a good eye to spot them, with experience you learn to recognize the telltale signs.  The way they carry themselves, how they avoid eye contact in public, hiding in plain sight behind their phones, covering up their bodies with expensive clothes, their faces just tight masks hiding…

  • God, a short story

    God decided to make the earth while bored.   Teenagers are full of energy and action most of the time, but these periods of chaos are often interrupted with stretches of boredom.  God is fifteen.  A teenager.  A girl named Bertha.  Boredom is harder for girls, especially when your name is Bertha.  What was her parents thinking to pick such a…

  • My body and me, a poem

    Sometimes I feel like an observer. Sitting comfortably behind my eyes, looking out into the world, marveling at what I see. Other times I’m speaking, and I hear myself, and I wonder if my audience is listening, and if so, what is going on in their heads. Moments like these I am very aware of…

  • Suicide, a tragedy (short story)

    Jane’s done. Done living. Done caring. Jane’s tired! Tired of the sameness of every day. Tired of being stuck. Tired of feeling hopeless. So deeply exhausted that getting up in the morning is just too much to ask. Jane is a 29 years old college graduate. Tons of student loan debt bought her an arts…

  • My two cents on war

    Human beings have been fighting each other for so long we have very specific names for these events.  Civil when the citizens of a country war among themselves.  Regional when two or three neighboring countries war each other.  World when groups of countries form alliances and these groups fight each other. We have been warring for so long…