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Waiting in the wings

This little story is about endings and beginnings. It introduces two characters and a gate. Even though there ..


Summer of the chipmunk

Sometimes, life gives you a gift. It could be an ideal mate. It could be the dream house you’ve been ..


Windsor Whip Works - An Oddly Endearing Gallery

The word “art” lends itself to drama, since artists are so often portrayed as passionate, arrogant, and angry. Think ..


David Kinchen – Newspaperman. Well done and well said.

I have always romanticized newspapermen. My image of a reporter was (and is) right out of a 1940’s movie: ..


Walking away --Fiction

I don’t know why you kept asking me if I’d write about you. I told you I never write ..


National Geographic guilt

I am sitting at my dining room table. To my right are five issues of the National Geographic. ..


The one that got away

One day after I had been investigating fires for about a year, I was standing outside a private residence in ..


Sandwiches ... a tribute

When I was in high school, I believed that the doughy bread in a sandwich roll should be dug out ..


Never cross a word

An unpredictable set of circumstances brought me from the Midwest to a confrontation with a failed actress in a tenement ..


Hero Worship Eyes

From the day Francis met Will—the same day that they became partners—it was as if, for her, the rest of ..


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