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Message from a Dead Mother

The Soul In Need and the Giver RJHoffman I wouldn’t want to take anything that makes you happy and it’s

My illustrations like this one reflect my love of the horror genre. The Night Stalker, The X-Files, and Millennium were

Candy Corona clenches her gut and clamps her lips as a droplet of saliva, caught between a breath and a

Most humans learn to speak before they learn to wipe. Speaking proceeds from the need caused by the itch. Because

Seven swallows pecking seeds chasing chickadees and bickering A surly sparrow not necessarily the strongest but the meanest strikes back

This is another short story from the novel The Confessor of Littlefield. The narrator, Adam is exploring his own identity

Confessor of Littlefield #8 This is a story within the novel The Confessor of Littlefield. Within the narrative of the

My own persona is building itself into the greater circle of John Hapflik, Bill Dinklpfuss, and this small Great Lakes

The story advances. The Homunculus Knows Its Place Along the back of the condemned lot on the corner of Old

The Big Dumb Narcissist from Rockford, Michigan sizes up all the little wrongs to make right. He seizes upon a