"Fig Tree Gazing"

“Fig Tree Gazing” in Santa Fe Writers Project Journal, February, 2014. A longtime couple gropes for the key. Scheduled sex, shirtless flexing, Brokeback Mountain, spirit feral cat, nude housecleaning, Emerson quoting an Arab proverb: “A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.”

The Douchebag At The Gym

New flash published today, about ridiculing a stranger online. A jolt between your jolts of espresso. In Postcard Shorts. 

Chief Wahoo Speaks

Chief Wahoo Speaks

Ooo! Ah! Ah!

(the tom­–tom beat)

Kill’m!

Slash’m!

Burn’m!

Rape!

Ooo! Ah! Ah!

(The blood–red beat)

Rape white women!

(boom boom boom)

Kill white children!

(boom boom boom)

Slash’m!

Kill’m!

Burn’m!

 Rape!

Wahoo! Wa!

(our ancient cry)

Wahoo kill!

(our savage cry)

Hi yi ya

(our ancient dance)

Hi ya ya

(our base hit dance!)

Kill `em!

Scalp `em!

Suck `em dry!

Drink red blood

of dead white man!

Hi ya! Hi!

Big game today!

Hi ya! Hi!

Turn double play!

Drink’m blood of dead white man!

Paint skin red with dead white man!

And now, savage Tribe of blood–red skin, hear Chief say—

Kill`m!

Slash’m!

Burn’m!

Rape!

And when done—

go beat`m A’s!

Grading Bad ... a Breaking Bad Riff

Breaking Bad fans, check out my Breaking Bad parody, "Grading Bad," in Hobart. How will Ms. L pay for Mittens' health care!!!

Fabulous Alyssa Moore illustration ...

Long I've wanted to be in Hobart. Well, I've had baseball haiku in there a couple of times, but this is my first story.

New Story in Zouch

So pleased to have "The Short, Happy Life of J. Alfred Macomber" published in Zouch. They have framed the story superbly! The dying tweets of a Twitter–sized life.