fiction

  • What can I say about high school? For some people it’s the best time of their lives to be looked back on in future times with great longing. For others it’s an extension of that twilight zone that is junior high where adjustment to life escapes you and you’re mired in confusion. Which one was…

  • There was always turmoil in our house but one place where there wasn’t any was while we were on vacation. Vacations were great except just as we drove away from the house. Mom and Artie would immediately begin arguing when we got in the car because Mom would remember something she forgot, and Artie wanted…

  • An excerpt from my memoir entitled “Just Walk Away” Let’s go back a little to when our family first came to Iowa. We had lived in Chicago for about a year and then we packed up and moved to Marshalltown, the county seat and the most populous town in central Iowa with about 20,000 people.…