I Was Right All Along by John Grey
My problem with school is that I can’t go back there and point out to that teacher just how wrong she was: about Columbus, about how I would turn out…
No. 6 · Salem Cemetery
Town Cop
Cop knows every one of us. It's ESP or something. Can't speed without him clocking the MPH. Can't smoke cigarettes or dope behind our own barn…
No. 6 · Salem Cemetery
He Answered to Ray
He chained his German shepherd to a rusty pole. His right arm was red where mosquitoes had bit. He slept on a bunk with three empty…
No. 6 · Salem Cemetery
The Old Cinema Palace
It was a flea market for a time: costume jewelry starring Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw. A little theater group took over, Neil Simon with a…
No. 7 · Ditch'em
The Old Man in Winter
December snows coat ice windows inside, my bony fleshless frame. They bury, insist that I must stay in this coffin house they have prepared for me.…
No. 7 · Ditch'em
In The Snake Pit
Who was it said, fortune awaits? Who chewed on greed so long, he spat honey? And what will the yellowing pages of the history book reveal?…
No. 7 · Ditch'em
A Drunken Walk By The Graveyard
These yews are ancient. How willfully, they spread their roots through this dark and frigid cemetery, silently lauding their long lives over the blackening stones. And…