Stephanie first saw him as he stood in the main hallway of the high school, seemingly lost. There was something different about this boy, foreign perhaps, maybe innocence, a shyness or even worldly. She couldn’t tell. However, she rushed over anyway to ask if she could help. “New here?” she asked. “Yes,” he answered. “Stephanie.”…

Ink and watercolor, 8 x 11 1/2

The old man struggled to push the wobbly shopping cart west along Mill Street. He wheeled the noisy cart to the north on Lake Street and under the city’s ancient arch, before turning it west again on the tiny street of Bell. He’d heard that there would be trouble that night, so he wanted to…

This is going to be controversial to some, on point to others and a mystery to those who cannot understand the situation, because they’ve never operated under tremendous stress as offered in the video evidence provided by both the City of Minneapolis, through police cams and bystanders using their cellphones. While I am not going…

Maktub found gaining entry in the human’s habitat easy. All it needed to do is reduce it’s physical structure to an ‘ooze,’ slipping through the crack beneath the main door. It did this for the simple purpose of learning what it could about the strange and violent specie that called itself: Homo Sapien. Quietly, it…

You know common sense is lost when a dozen eggs come in a flimsy Styrofoam carton, but you need a chainsaw to open a package of batteries.

She stood at her open door Unwilling to venture forth Trapped by the new ritual Her cloth virus mask Rendered useless By a broken strap Her emotional undoing And exterminating Angel Kissing her impolitely

Limped into our local ice cream parlor, yesterday and ordered a banana split. “Crushed nuts?” the woman behind the counter asked. “No, bad back.” I misunderstood the question.

It was bacon cooking that brought him from his room. He took it in, wishing for a taste. Then she screamed, “SPIDER!” He spun around to see where. Seeing nothing, he turned back. She had the newspaper advertisements rolled up and was swinging away. In a panic, he raced to his left, darted to his…

As of late, I’ve been going out into our backyard, to sit during the early evening hours where I enjoy the slight evening breeze and warm air. During this time, I tend to listen to a podcast or two, sometimes an audio book and stare up at the soon-glowing stars. From time to time, I…