I just learned more about this composer, Schubert, yesterday.  I was trying a new song in my lesson, and my cello teacher filled me in...

The phone rang, Rory’s pencil hesitated above a page of fractions dividing fractions. Came his mother’s expected voice, “Rory! Phone!”...

Rick Slickman ached from his neck to his toes, his joints creaking louder than a rusty door. At 72, every  trip to the shared bathroom...

“You’re everything that’s wrong with this country, do you know that?” “Me? I’m sorry sweetheart, I thought that was your side.”...

(June 27) P angry with me. Says all I want do is hang around with scummy friends. Play video games. Not make something of self. Like...

You see the four of them on the deck near the hotel’s main pool, already drinking. Aaron is wearing a blue and purple checked shirt, his...

Check-in was smooth, baggage drop easy. The absence of belts, buckles, coins and earrings meant she cleared security having expended a...

There’s a fire somewhere over the ridgeline and the river hasn’t frozen like it usually does this time of year and the line at Fred and...

Becky watched her father for the usual signs of anger as he ducked back into the still running 1976 Maverick. She’d know he knew if the...

The air horn blew loud and I woke up. I turned over and with narrow eyes looked over at a wind up alarm clock sitting on the bureau – its...

The plane swayed a little, and Leena steadied herself against the small bathroom sink. The ground beneath her felt sticky. Her reflection...

Marceline loved the way the swollen, pale vintage green of each lush olive barely breached the cloudy liquid in a good dirty martini....

Have you ever awoken in the morning filled with a sense of dread? That today the world might end and you wouldn’t mind because then you...