This story isn’t all that much fun, but it is short, just like life!
Liberate
There is so much to unlearn about what we want and why and when and who. (This story is in the 2019 Spring/Summer issue of Epiphany Magazine. Go order a copy if you long to see what the words look like on a page.)
Sing
Sometimes you find yourself in situations where you feel extremely unqualified to carry out a task, like singing someone’s final song. You at least wish you had ironed your shirt, but you didn’t. (This story is in the 2019 Spring/Summer issue of Epiphany Magazine. Go order a copy.)
Roam
It is a nice thing when friends find each other out in the choppy seas of loneliness, having so much in common, while having so little in common. Also, monkeys!
Troll
When someone invites you into their beard, keep in mind that you may never find your way back out.
Stop
Every filthy boring neglected rest area has a rich history which is largely unknown to its daily urinaters.
Chew
Being married to a man is probably nobody’s idea of a vacation.
Counsel
High school was a place where bad people grew into new people who were sometimes also still bad people.
Dazzle
Somebody is going to need to jazz up the afternoon session of this sales conference or I’m going to have to do it myself.
Fish
An inside look into the future of romantic luncheons.
Notice
A high number of lives include a dad, or dad shapes, or at a minimum something in the shadows urging us to cut our hair.
Invent
Sometimes we believe it, and we feel it, and we express it with our bodies, until we are forcibly hospitalized.
Cop
Before you wash the officer, you need to ask yourself, am I following the cleaning protocol?
Recount
It’s hard to get a fair trial these days with all the clowns and quarterbacks vying for selfies.
Make
Life is full of sandwiches full of meats full of additives full of smells.
Visit
A doctor is a person we pay to explain our health to us.
Brag
A breathtaking glimpse into the world of tomorrow.
Ooze
Take a vacation from feeling good about taking a vacation.
Attempt
In one of our future realities people will play games that cause fake pain to distract themselves from all of the real pain.
Jump
A lakeside luncheon with unexpected guests, or a frolic in a mountain lake with a peeping observer who smells like tuna salad and human sweat.