Never Again Is What We Swore The Time Before 
Congressional Chess Games 
Behind a Punisher Pickup Truck 
Crossing Lanes 
In A Burger Kingdom of Heaven 
The Soil Is Alive
I used to believe in dirt. I thought that the ground was literally just ground down rocks mixed up with...
No Snowshovels
It's January 6, and I still haven't touched a snow shovel. The temperatures linger just above freezing, cold but wet,...
December Green
In my memories the disappointingly green Decembers began in 1980, with wet grass soaking socks and no snow to play...
Talk Soon
"We'll talk soon," she said with a smile. As I lay on the couch in the kitchen falling asleep to...
In The Dream
We started out as children playing in a world with open meadows and rich dark forests. Then the aliens landed....
Wilder
The garden was always mostly in rebellion, a place more of mud, and then of weeds, than of the seeds...
Mask on the Tree
It was designed to prevent the transmission of the deadly pandemic, but the printed fabric of the mask made her...
Howling Wind
He opened the car door and got out, holding in his right hand a six pack of beer that he...
Stop and Go Country
It was a day in late September, and I was teaching my teenage daughter how to drive, so we left...
Mount Battie Mist
In the wake of the greatest betrayal of my life, I fled, homeless, to the foot of Mount Battie and...
