I will be presenting Hungry Rats at the VPC123 Fine Arts Festival in Newberry, Michigan, presented by the Tahquamenon Area Schools.
VPC123 Fine Arts Festival
Saturday, May 14, 2011
11 AM to 5 PM
Tahquamenon Area School and Library
700 Newberry Ave.,… Read the rest
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The writer didn’t even have the meager pride Faust’s reckless ambition. Instead, procrastination had been the culprit this time. Procrastination… and a demanding and needy child! Never a man to breach a contract, Mephistopheles gave the child her bottle as promised, and whisked the writer away to the lake of fire.… Read the rest
30 <250-Word Stories in 30 Days (#30/30) : Twenty-Three Minutes After Midnight. Read More »
Tyrone thinks there isn’t something right about this DJ, with his Ray-Ban sunglasses, his corduroys, his nonchalance… but what could it be? As Tyrone tries to decipher the puzzle, he scratches his head with two of his tentacles while using the rest to light cigarettes and order drinks for the many women surrounding him.… Read the rest
30 <250-Word Stories in 30 Days (#29/30) : Something Isn’t Right Here, Part 2 Read More »
The insult burned so bad he had to have a whole bowl of soup to soothe his flayed tongue. His victim, on the other hand, had to cover himself in aloe vera. It was a pretty sore day for both of them, and their friendship never fully recovered.… Read the rest
30 <250-Word Stories in 30 Days (#28/30) : The Burn Read More »
When King Midas announced his intention to run for the Republican Presidential nomination everyone assumed it was a publicity stunt. After all, he had a variety of products, venues, and enterprises, and the grand sum of everything considered together was somewhere close to breaking even.… Read the rest
30 <250-Word Stories in 30 Days (#27/30) : As Good As Gold Read More »
A bomb went off.
That’s okay. It was just a P-Funk album.
Everyone wiped the sweat off their brows and proceeded to get down.
It was a good night.… Read the rest
30 <250-Word Stories in 30 Days (#26/30) : Boom! Read More »
The writer became increasingly stressed out. Mephistopholes was standing in the corner and he knew that he was two minutes away from getting another soul on his ledger.… Read the rest
30 <250-Word Stories in 30 Days (#25/30) : Two Minutes to Midnight. Read More »
Iota, Louisiana is somewhere out in the swamps between New Orleans and Houston. It is a speck, unknown, and by custom, creole, cajon, cajoling, bizarre, it is not generally known by outsiders. This is where Andrew went to escape February and high school.… Read the rest
30 <250-Word Stories in 30 Days (#23/30) : Iota Read More »
The student revolutionary hung her head. Now that MTV had opened a house for The Real World in her favorite Marxist neighborhood, the process of gentrification seemed complete. It was exotic, really, to most of the world, this feeling she felt, but it isn’t giving fair credit to say that she felt it naively.… Read the rest
30 <250-Word Stories in 30 Days (#22/30) : Under the Blue Line Read More »