Fiction

PERSONAL OBLIVION

Chapter One Riley Folsom didn’t really want to join the “D” Association, but membership was mandatory for anyone who earned a varsity letter in football at Desmond High School in the late 1960’s. At age 16, Riley had played varsity football for the first time as a sophomore and managed to log enough minutes of…

A CUBAN SCAR

Eleuthera is a small island located on the far eastern edge of the Commonwealth of Bahamas. Its land mass stretches about 110 miles in length, but averages barely more than a mile and a half in width. It is one of the several archipelagic states of the Bahamas, located approximately 50 miles from Nassau. Prior…

IMAGINATIVE STEALTH

Sonny Parsons almost always looked forward to his youth league baseball games. He had played two years of Little League baseball and was drawing near the end of his second year in Pony League. Now nearing his 15th birthday, he had looked forward with eagerness to every game he played in those leagues. Tonight’s game…

Doing the Bullwinkle Shuffle

I had never set foot in the state of New Mexico until one summer my wife and I decided to give it a try over the course of a three-day weekend. We visited Angel Fire, a tiny, unincorporated village in the far northern part of the state, set in a valley that was, at its…