authentic expression

  • After

    On October 17, 2016 our only child completed suicide. I am a writer of fiction mostly and often there is the urge to pen a plot with requisite points, to generate something…

  • Red Bikini

    By the time Renee Marie stepped from the backseat of the ’74 Plymouth Duster, it was nearly 9:00 a.m. Going to North Beach every other weekend the best—it’s what we do she…

  • Spider Woman’s Loom: Chapter One

    Originally posted on lorie adair: Seeing me now, with my hair thinning and skin rutted like a reservation road, you would not know that I was young once my eyes dark obsidian.…

  • Seven

    Emmalene wanted her daddy to be like everyone else’s. She wanted her daddy to do, to fix her bike chain when it fell off rather than having to grab it on her own and slipping it…

  • Spider Woman’s Loom: Chapter One

    Seeing me now, with my hair thinning and skin rutted like a reservation road, you would not know that I was young once my eyes dark obsidian. When my feet arched over the land to…

    After

    On October 17, 2016 our only child completed suicide. I am a writer of fiction mostly and often there is the urge to pen a plot with…

    Adolescent-man

    Recently, I sent a pithy comment to my Facebook friends asking for the manual for raising a fourteen-year-old boy. Cliche’ I know but the feelings of…