Watcher, Waiting 2010 Sometimes, she looks outside the window. She sits in her chair, lets her sewing, or her reading, or her knitting, fall onto her lap, and watches. Sometimes, she sees the brown sparrows playing in the mango tree, perhaps looking for caterpillars for their morning meal. Sometimes, she sees the housekeeper bending down…
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THE WAIT 2006 She was twenty-three back then. Maybe young. Maybe stupid. Maybe old for her years, maybe young for her heart. So many maybes. All she knew was that she was twenty-three, and it was her lucky number. Lucky for what? God knew. Lucky for whom? Who cared? Twenty-three was twenty-three, and if she…
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The Gravestone Beneath the Wintry Sky 2009 It is summer, but the sky above her gravestone is as gray as late winter snow. He imagines that it has been this way for the last twenty-five years. He imagines all the students who have passed by and wondered how she could have gone so quickly. He…
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Scenes in Search of a Novel 2008 *funny how these strange things pop into my head while studying…now if I could only get my plotting in order…* Let’s call the girl Andrea, and the guy Jim. Andrea and Jim were in a romantic relationship, and were close enough to the altar to get married –…
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Quiet Tale 2009 Sometimes, when he opens that shoebox in his head, he remembers her. It’s just like a real shoebox, he imagines, in this day and age of shoes being bought in bags, of shoeboxes slowly becoming obsolete, of shoes that are made to fit you exactly so that you can take them home…
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PS 2006 He had a head like a coffee pot. Think of one of those thin-glass-walled coffee pots that fit snugly into coffeemakers. The older models look like petticoats, with necks clasped by handles, and bodies fanning out, skirt-like, from the plastic clasp. Now think of a human head, with the area between the eyes…
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DOWN THE HALL 2006 (R-18, so keep out, kids) He was new to the office, and she worked down the hall from him. She was pretty: a young-looking thing who acted like a child, sometimes spoke like a woman, laughed a lot. He did not see her much; he did not even hear her; but…
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