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At the Mall – A Short Story
309 wordsSharp elbows. Sharp like shark fins, serrated like old kitchen knives with wooden handles. A smell like skunk and burnt canola oil, something stuffed away and long hidden from sunlight. There is no overhead music but—velcro, children’s shoes, spilled fountain drinks left sticky on the tiles. Glass boxes filled with plastic cloth, on plastic people…
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Backs on Grass – A Short Story
1,063 wordsWhere did we come from? I don’t mean life. That’s been documented already; the pale curtain of lightning; the dense seas—Venusian, black like boiled leather; the first spark that tethered us all to water. Roger Gray was the first one to record it on video. He won the Nobel Prize for it about a decade…
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From Rain to Red Rock
132 wordsMaking the transition from the rain forests of Oregon to the second driest state in the country has been quite the adventure. Utah is beautiful in a completely different way from the Pacific Northwest. There are the red deserts with ravens high above them; the aspen forests that flutter like wings; the long chains of…
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The Shadows of Trees
24 wordsThey stretch long; the wings of birds pulsed up in flight, silhouettes positioned on rust, orange as the backs of deer, sunlight quietly waiting.
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