Category Archives: Short Stories

HE’S BEEN SEEN standing in a vineyard in Westfield, beside the Thruway, waving to truckers, and then the same day in Conneaut, wandering the docks. A surveillance camera places him in Geneva; a carny operator sold him a doughnut in … Continue reading →

THE NOVEL OF THE HOLOCAUST is coming!  Yessiree–alive, alive, alive!  SEE the freak of the twentieth century, the soul-searching survivor of the ultimate battle of good and evil!  HEAR his pitiful story of torture and degradation!  THRILL to the savage, … Continue reading →

Published in Ascent SHE HAD NOT WANTED TO GO to Ho Chi Minh City–or anywhere else with Roland. Even on the plane, on the way down, Gayle clung to this as if it absolved her in advance, though it was … Continue reading →

IT HAS CURED ME of my irrational terror of helicopters, that is one thing I can say. Now all my nightmares take place in airports, racing down endless corridors for flights I’ve missed. Heathrow, D’Orly, JFK. He only trusts a … Continue reading →

Published in the Winter 2000 Issue of Glimmer Train HE CAME TO HER because his mother was going through some hard times moneywise. Of course it was not money really; there was a man who’d almost married her, a lost job, … Continue reading →