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Fiction Workshop

"Fiction Workshop" is exclusive content for paid subscribers ($45/year or $5/mo). It hosts my short fiction--published, unpublished and in progress. I share background on each piece, and welcome your engagement, comments and questions. Please jump in!

Pocketknife - Part Two

Fiction Workshop

Pocketknife - Part Two

I am old now and dream in reverse. I would be happy to be in the seat of the car behind my father, to be lifted on his shoulder, to scurry to his call. But the way is blocked. My childhood has new owners.

Pocketknife - Part One

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Pocketknife - Part One

My father died eight months ago at age eighty-eight. Now he is back, standing not more than twenty yards away.

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Growing Tucker

Looking back, Matthew says it was too much responsibility to put on the boy at the time.

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Neighbors

This was an attempt at flash fiction, usually anything under a thousand words. I haven't done much with the story, which goes back to June 2023. It is unpublished. Rereading for the first time in a couple of years, I'm still attached to it, although it