People’s Choice Award Finalist Story in the 6th Annual Warren Adler Short Story Contest. The sun was out and the few remaining clouds were scudding away, but the barnyard was still too wet for playing. The grandkids joined Bob and Berta on the porch. Bob had seen them looking curiously at the dust covered […]
People’s Choice Award Finalist Story in the 6th Annual Warren Adler Short Story Contest. I AM: unemployed once more, 4th time in past year, which is 100% tell-me-somethin’-I-don’t know info as I AM: an L.A.-cliché, AKA failed TV writer, with lone 6-years-in-past credit, but 2-day is 2-day and I AM: on Zuma sands, sweating ass in […]
People’s Choice Award Finalist Story in the 6th Annual Warren Adler Short Story Contest. Seven squid jiggers line the weathered dock like seagulls. They stand shoulder-to-shoulder, hair amiss from a significant east wind, waiting for their prey. Their hands are covered with ocean slime, dirty water sloshes over onto their shoes and the sound of […]
First Place Award Winning Story in the 6th Annual Warren Adler Short Story Contest. After my father left us, my mother began speaking to people I couldn’t see and never answered the door. When she was institutionalized, I became a ward of the State, but only for a week. The court awarded custody to my […]
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