A Shadow of Truth

“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
Abraham Lincoln Lincoln’s Own Stories
16th president of US (1809 – 1865)
Matthew, Matty (Poop) Skyles was born in the spring of 1970 in the Little Duck Key hospital, just outside [...]

First Rate Girls

The old money families of the City all shared three basic things in common. The mostly summered in Martha’s Vineyard or at the Cape. They were peculiar in secret, hidden ways and the men of these families always married first rate women, who went on to bare and raise (with the often overwhelming help of [...]

Art and War

Very rough draft. A reminder to all intelligent crit is always, always welcome.
At fifteen he decided he was going to be a painter. His mother said he could be anything he wanted to be. His father being dead didn’t have much of an opinion on the matter. He was not a frivolous boy and [...]

Damaged Girls (revised)

Beth and Lacy started out as friends in the Ninth grade because they had to. Nobody else would have them. Beth was on her fifth city in ten years with her military father and reclusive mother while Lacy had been “re-zoned” into Lincoln high by a matter of ten feet on some city hall map [...]

Taste- Flash Fiction

What a great day. That’s what I was thinking when we pulled up to the drive-through window at Church’s Chicken and pulled the order of leg’s, thigh’s and biscuits away from the pimple faced teenager and into the car. I handed it over to my wife and watched her as she happily picked through the [...]