Monthly Archives: December 2013

Shattered

Posted on December 31, 2013 by sputterpub

Alan pulled to the curb outside Cassie’s place. It was nearly sunset on the last day of spring, still light at 8:30. He had such mixed feelings about this walk that he remained in his car for a minute. What … Continue reading →

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How She Walks

Posted on December 30, 2013 by sputterpub

Her heel is first to strike and find a base – she forward rolls to balance at her toe, while sinews in her leg extend and brace the limb against the planet’s pull, and so her body pushes forward, up, … Continue reading →

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Sparrow

Posted on December 27, 2013 by sputterpub

By 6 a.m. I’m sitting at the screen of my computer, straining for the word I need to make a couplet sing, the scene as mute as monasteries, when a bird attacks my window, never seeing glass. Its body bombed … Continue reading →

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Wayne

Posted on December 26, 2013 by sputterpub

I love you less with every passing week but I don’t want to tell you my dismay. My closest friend no longer whom I seek, I’m harboring a secret I won’t say. For wouldn’t I be selfish if I told … Continue reading →

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Precious

Posted on December 24, 2013 by sputterpub

I acted in a play when I was 3,adapted drama built of Gingerbread. The coach had to create a role for me so I played silent Heifer. On my head he set a giant mask he’d painted black.I wobbled onto … Continue reading →

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Suggestion

Posted on December 23, 2013 by sputterpub

I mean to make you think along this line before my little verse is fully sung: Attend as you pronounce these words of mine, to how you use and where you hold your tongue. Is it absorbing food you shouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Isolation

Posted on December 20, 2013 by sputterpub

I have my books, my children and my home, discovered music, ideas and opinions, but what can any person call her own, and where and for how long are my dominions? For I cannot possess. In fact I borrow. And … Continue reading →

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Inadvertent Magic (End)

Posted on December 19, 2013 by sputterpub

From age twenty-two to thirty-three Peg had a few affairs, several friendships and always her family, but most of her time she was alone. She saw her sister daily, but she spent her mornings wandering the fields in search of … Continue reading →

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Inadvertent Magic (Middle)

Posted on December 18, 2013 by sputterpub

By 1912 Sam had established himself as a business magnate and civic leader. He had married a Peralta heiress and bought his creekside mansion near the Kent estate. His sisters lived with him until tension between them and his wife … Continue reading →

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Inadvertent Magic (Beginning)

Posted on December 17, 2013 by sputterpub

They knew not what they did, when they built the little house. And they did it right. The lot was rather small, downstream from the Kent estate, where the creek leveled out and zigged right in its year-round run to … Continue reading →

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