Aug 25, 2018 | Featured, Lies, Poetry, Truth & Lies |
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. And now you could read... The Secret People If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller The Pale King A Lady As She Spring and All The House Was Quiet and The World Was...
Aug 18, 2018 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
His mother continued: From the look in your eyes, Archie, I gather you’ve forgotten about Amy, but back when you were three and four, you had quite a crush on her. Once, when we all went to the Schneidermans’ apartment for a late-afternoon Sunday dinner,...
Aug 11, 2018 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
‘Papers’ – the man held out his paper-taking hand without looking up. ‘Aint the newsboy,’ Dove explained. The man glanced up, then wished he hadn’t. Before him stood something in a pitch helmet off a Walgreen counter, share-croppers’ jeans, sunglasses, a dollar watch...
Aug 5, 2018 | Lies, Poetry, Truth & Lies |
The Arabs used to say, When a stranger appears at your door, feed him for three days before asking who he is, where he’s come from, where he’s headed. That way, he’ll have strength enough to answer. Or, by then you’ll be such good friends you don’t care. Let’s go back...
Jul 28, 2018 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
I’ve already gone into our conversation about my bird-women. That took place a few months after I asked her to move in with me and she said no. As I think of it now I know we’d have driven each other crazy but at the time her refusal shook me and I had to...
Jul 21, 2018 | Lies, Short Stories, Truth & Lies |
It was night-time and He was alone. And He saw afar-off the walls of a round city and went towards the city. And when He came near He heard within the city the tread of the feet of joy, and the laughter of the mouth of gladness and the loud noise of many lutes. And He...