I ignored him until he throttled down. That was not normal.
It was a pleasant night, but an hour after curfew. City lights from Saigon to the east turned the dark a velvety purple, and the sweet
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Short Fiction
5 636Readings on his works
Followers
Poetry
Contemporary
1 min
Mid-American Back Roads
Flocks in flight,
Murmurations
Of rippling ribbons
Against rain-full skies
Above the
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Short Fiction
Slice of Life
1 min
Paper and Ink
She didn't think herself a racist. She'd had black school friends, worked with black women at the restaurant, and watched Oprah daily.
But when her seven-year-old, white daughter brought home a
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Finalist - Jury
America: color it in.
Summer 2020
- Short Fiction
Poetry
Indiana at 3 a.m.
In the morning night
When streetlight shadows
Scramble rat-ways
Under parked cars
And
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Finalist - Jury
America: color it in.
Summer 2020
- Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
4 min
Why Slavery in America?
To some degree, American slavery was due to the glaciers of the last Ice Age that ended nearly twelve thousand years ago. As the ice, covering five million square miles and as thick as 10,000 feet ... [+]
Qualified
America: color it in.
Summer 2020
- Creative Nonfiction
Poetry
1 min
Loudest the Graveyard's Call
Loudest is the graveyard’s call
On afternoons in autumn’s fall
As light between the
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Qualified
Short Fiction Contest
2020
- Poetry
Poetry
Contemporary
1 min
North Carolina Road Trip
They serve
Pit-cooked pork
Says the sign
Beneath the mossy oaks
Of Alligator Swamp,
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Poetry
While Transporting Motorcycles in Vietnam
I wedge myself between the Hondas,
Giving up my place to him,
Moving slowly and with help.
Pant
... [+]
Poetry
Historical
1 min
Saigon '68
I have seen you, shell-shocked city,
Shimmer in the parachute flares
The day's dust and exhaust
... [+]
Short Fiction
Portrait
2 min
While We Breathe
One March afternoon in 1969 I was on the deck of a Chinese junk listening to the water clop against the wooden hull and enjoying a breeze that blew toward the South China Sea. The junk bobbed ... [+]
Finalist - Jury
Set Stories Free
2018