The Horseman

Here’s a short story for you. It’s my imagining of how it went the first time a person tried to ride a horse. The Horseman Jalk was pleased as he looked up at the puffy white clouds. Those kinds of big, billowy clouds, like overgrown sheep, meant that there would not...

Happy Easter

Last year, my sister and her kids came to visit on Easter. I was super excited, because cousins spending Easter together is wholesome as fuck. However, I was dealing with extreme nausea and vomiting, coupled with fairly debilitating lupus symptoms at the time, so I...

Spider

Roxanne had just arrived home from the party, and her feet were killing her. She dropped her purse on the floor, kicked off her extremely high stripper heels, yanked off her bra from under her shirt, and collapsed on the couch. Her stomach sloshed, unpleasantly full...

Cats

My daughter is slowly acquiring a cat. It started when the cat in question showed up in our backyard, peering into our house. Nadia, being Nadia, generously fed the cat her cereal milk. Now the cat comes into our backyard every day, and sometimes sits in our front...

Premature E-Publication

  After much reflection, I have decided to remove The Taxidermist and Rosemary’s Baby Daddy from the world. When I published those books, I was an immature writer who knew nothing about the publishing industry. In my mind, it was Step 1: Write a book Step 2: Self...