Category: A Friend’s Writing

I can’t find Lloyd Hill, and it bothers me. I was sipping coffee two tables away from a man who looks so much like Lloyd that I finally walked over and asked. “No,” the man said, and by the time he had spoken I knew he wasn’t Lloyd. Lloyd was soft-spoken, so soft-spoken that sometimes…

  Just Out! Born With (poem), Shift, Issue 3, January 2021. Where to read it: Online here, then find the READ button (no more print copies available). Final Piece (poem), Shift, Issue 3, January 2021. Where to read it: Online here, then find the READ button (no more print copies available).   Coming Soon Biting (short story), The MacGuffin,…

The people in my poems don’t behave very well. The men have thoughts about women they shouldn’t be thinking about in the first place, and the young are very much lacking in almost every way that matters. Sometimes people act with grace, but usually not.  My short, short stories are about terrible things I have…