THE KITTEN LITTLE GRAY A SHORT STORY …………………………………… Little Gray’s mom lay an eyeball-less frozen corpse half buried under grey slush on the narrow gravel street shoulder just a block south of the house. (footnote) Six years since she played in the sun in the lap of her happy child. Her very…

THE DON KARL STORY POSTED IN SERIAL ON KINDLE VELLA THROUGH CHAPTER 17 AS OF APRIL 7, 2023 DON KARL takes place mostly on the by now well known Outer Banks of North Carolina, comprised of Dare and Currituck counties. …

THE SIX COOL STORY PART 2 TESS COOL The protagonist of the SIX COOL STORY, released from prison at the end of book one, joins Six and Tess for the ride back to Crawfish County. All three now in their late teens, having moved past initial trauma caused by childhood sexual abuse, find out that it's affects, including serious consecuences from related events, are to affect them for the rest of their lives.

A youth living in rural southern Illinois meets a neighbor boy who, along with his twin sister have suffered violent sexual abuse at the…

There is no tomorrow there is no yesterday just hope in beating hearts memories and regrets today.

DON KARL CHAPTER 8 BOUNCE AND JUMP RIDE THE WORM With the south swell came a sea change. A total atmospheric turn around from a sunny September late afternoon to a grey, misty, foreboding dream scape twenty degrees cooler and depressingly dreary. The girls and the kids came running back…

(James Joyce ordering Guiness in a Dublin pub:) “A drunken chess champ setting on the steps with telstars lit… lies on his lips… swears truly but cruelly to collect the pages of small worlds…

Playing an acoustic on the beach is pretty safe because the first thing people think is “bum”…… ‘walk way around this guy.’ It helps to have a coffee cup with you to sit on top of the guitar case. That keeps ’em way out there. But in a campground, five…

Dear Mr. Jagger…..February 23, 1964 Olney, Illinois, U.S.A. Dear Mr. Jagger: Could you send me an application to be in your band? I think the Stones are so coo. In fact I can't even write out the whole name of your band because just to see or hear that whole coo name…