Works of fiction and true.

LOOP

There wasn’t enough time to strip him clean. But enough to flap open the man’s sable-brushed vest and take his gun. Two exit wounds splotched the dead man’s shirt: one at the center of his chest, another clean through his liver. That one had a harsher color, like the hematite he used to mine over in Leadville, before the darker ways seduced him…

GREAT REMEDIES

It was a quarter past the new day. Night was being tucked in by an air of impending snow. Remy, unprepared for the cold, snuggled into his coat, leaned up against the side of his truck, and waited for the Foxy Tail to close. The manager was running late. Last week, when he cased the joint, the guy was out the door by midnight on the dot. The burglary would be a subtle affair…

DON’T VANILLA ICE YOUR WAY THROUGH LIFE. (The Moth StorySLAM performance)

There’s a moving scene in the critically-acclaimed dramatic film…Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze…where the Turtles are forced to fight one of their own—a playful snapping turtle named Tokka. It’s a gut-wrenching scene.

As a kid, I always saw Tokka as a lover not a fighter…