Author Archives: sputterpub

Three Wishes

Posted on October 24, 2014 by sputterpub

It took me near five decades to decide exactly which three wishes I’d select, but I am ready now – I’ve trued and tried assorted theories and I don’t expect to change my mind, arranged to best receive the favors … Continue reading →

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Sudden (End)

Posted on October 23, 2014 by sputterpub

Lily and I caught up at lunch, so we discussed our now-big boys. But she has a daughter too, and Gen has provided her with three grandsons. Like my boys, Gen’s sons are technically Jewish (through their mother), culturally yiddische, … Continue reading →

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Sudden (Middle)

Posted on October 22, 2014 by sputterpub

I’ve had loss but it was more natural than this one. My parents are both dead, but they lived to their eighties. A few of my friends have died (climbing accidents, drug overdoses, AIDS) but those tragedies were decades ago … Continue reading →

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Sudden (Beginning)

Posted on October 21, 2014 by sputterpub

I guess I’ve always been oriented toward females. I mean, I was a normal active boy, totally uninterested until puberty kicked in, but ever since then yes, I’ve wanted to be with a girl. Sure I’ve had a few fantasies … Continue reading →

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A Picture of My Father

Posted on October 20, 2014 by sputterpub

As frail as foam dissolving on the shore, as light as August chaff upon the air, my father stands between his sisters, more ancestral than alive. So pale and spare he seems to me, among contagious age, I want to … Continue reading →

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TMI

Posted on October 17, 2014 by sputterpub

I know you’ll flinch and say it’s TMI but gifts of insight need be sung aloud, so I’m compelled to demonstrate: to try to pause a butterfly or catch a cloud. The core of me was clogged by years of … Continue reading →

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Genesis (III of III)

Posted on October 16, 2014 by sputterpub

By the end of that first morning, four individuals dropped out of the program. Two of them complained of back pain, and the others said the lecturing put them off. The rest of the group was fully involved in the … Continue reading →

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Genesis (II of III)

Posted on October 15, 2014 by sputterpub

For the next hour, they led the group in gentle exercise. Now she, then he, often both together, took the assembled class through systematic relaxation and muscle awareness, on to stretching and limbering movements, and finally to light calisthenics. They … Continue reading →

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Genesis (I of III)

Posted on October 14, 2014 by sputterpub

She brought her yogurt to the porch and watched the sunrise pink ahead of her. It was going to be too warm to work in the afternoon; she figured she’d go to the site soon. Then her husband appeared in … Continue reading →

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Diary

Posted on October 13, 2014 by sputterpub

Before I read my pages I could think I knew, but now I see it was the year my mother had us paint the kitchen pink, and neighbors moved back in, when I appear determined to take off detested weight, … Continue reading →

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