Chicago

• The Scattering

  5/24/2025

  500 or Less, Chiller, Commentary, Confessions, Death and Life, Flash, Personal Essay, Psychological, Society, Writing

  Apartments, Arcade, Art Dreams, Cafe, Chicago

  

• Madman Hands

  4/9/2025

  500 or Less, Absurdist Fiction, Creative Writing, Culture, Flash, Social Comm, Society, Story Poem

  Chicago, Good and evil, Homeless, Mall, Shopping, Stimulation

  

• The Cigarette Lady

  2/25/2025

  Flash, Flash Fiction, Imagined and Real, Time Machine

  Chicago, Cigarette smoking, Loneliness, Milwaukee, Old lady, Technology, Typewriter, Wisconsin

  

• Snakes and Stripes

  2/2/2025

  500 or Less, Dystopian, Flash, Opinion, Political

  Chicago, Hateful society, Kindness, Last Kingdom, Love, Orange, Rebellion, Savages, Snake, Uhtred

  

• Velour Beans

  2/18/2024

  Astrophysics, Chiller, Creative Writing, Fiction, Popular, Short Fiction, Spillage

  Chicago, Chinese Food, Fiction, Laos, War, Writing

  

• Central Park Heart

  6/15/2023

  Confessions, Creative Writing, Darkness, Deep Thoughts, Personal Essay

  Central Park, Chicago, Creative Writing, On The Road, Prose, Writing

  

• Mindless

  10/19/2022

  Deep in the Dark, Flash, Free-Range Verse, Memory Scrawls

  American Dream, Chicago, Funeral, Mental, Michigan, Padded Cell, Star Wars, Wizard of Oz, Writing

  

• The Shakes (Excerpt 2)

  9/26/2022

  Excerpts, Fiction, Novel, Novella, Novelette, Unsettling Drama

  Chicago, Fiction, Grandparenting, Kiss, Novel Excerpt, Oshkosh, Summer of 1979, Winnie-The-Pooh, Wisconsin

  

• Applesauce Cat

  9/4/2022

  Creative Writing, Deep in the Dark, Flash, Might Want to be Mature, Poetry and Prose

  Applesauce, Atlanta, Candles, Cats, Chicago, Christmas, Circus, The Lonely, Tombstone

  

• A Crab Crawl Crucifixion (Ending)

  8/30/2022

  Chiller, Creative Writing, Dystopian, Fiction

  Barber, Chicago, Flirtations, Guns, Haircut, Rifle, Short Story, Wall Street, Western, Writing