Dave Bachmann

Dave is a retired teacher who taught language arts to special needs students in Arizona for 39 years. He now resides in California, writing poems and short stories for children and grown-ups.

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Published works

Short Fiction

Slice of Life 3 min

A Coaster Connection for Gramps and Granddaughter

Dave Bachmann

I am on a roller coaster which is click clacking up a steep incline. Lily, my eight-year-old granddaughter, is sitting next to me. "This is boring," she laments, gazing languidly over the side of ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

4 min

A Teachable Moment That Became a Disaster Movie

Dave Bachmann

There is a large box in the custodian's office in the elementary school where I work. It is labeled "for lizards only." It has never been used to catch a lizard. Or anything ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

Portrait 3 min

Dandy Lions

Dave Bachmann

It was 1962, Wichita, Kansas. My Dad surveyed the front yard—a very big front yard, a grim look on his face. "Weeds," he pronounced sullenly, as if our front yard had become the equivalent of ... [+]

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Dave Bachmann

Published works

A Coaster Connection for Gramps and Granddaughter

A Teachable Moment That Became a Disaster Movie

Dandy Lions