A Quick Heart With Music and Dancing

I didn’t know where else to put these stories. I was going to sell them for a dollar apiece at the flea market, but it rained that day so we went and got donuts instead. So here they are.

That time I was a stowaway

Adventures on the high seas

01-30
09:00

There’s a Word

For my best friend Sid, who died too young at 89.

01-04
08:49

I Heard the Caged Bird Sing

Some birds sing right up to the end

10-23
10:05

A Stranger’s Sad Tale

The neighbor who never said hi pours out her heart to me.

10-22
09:21

One Day in 70s New York

The sirens never stopped screaming & every doorway smelled of piss.

10-22
05:51

Secrets and Sorrows

This is when I stay up too late

10-22
01:32

The Day I Rode the Bus

Oh, the humanity!

10-17
01:18

The Little Flowers

There’s something about Mary

10-16
01:21

My Spectacular Backfires

Failure bouncing around like puke on a carnival ride

10-10
07:23

Close Call

What does Woodstock and the Iranian revolution have in common? I almost went to both.

10-01
08:08

A Quick Heart With Music and Dancing

Romantic fantasies are picked off one by one, and crushed out like a Camel cigarette under a penny loafer.

09-08
06:35

Fight crazy with crazy

My psychic struggle to understand God ends with an epic wrestling match with a pesky fortune teller.

08-12
09:19

Locked in a Room With a Crazy Person

Holding up a mirror to someone with a sorta sketchy grip on reality

07-31
07:36

One Time, It Snowed

And then, we heard it. A sound, like crying. First faintly, like seagulls in the distance. Then, stronger. Like Carmen the meter maid, screaming for help.

07-24
04:48

Namaste, Mr Softee

I have an epiphany at the ice cream truck. I also have an ice cream.

07-11
02:28

Running Downhill

Trying to go fast without falling, careful and careless jumbling together. Only to find myself in Purgatory, which evidently is a shopping cart stuck in the mud. Oh, and there’s a ghost, too.

07-02
07:05

The Fish Is Dying

The fish and I are both struggling with anxiety. Thank god there are angels. No, not angel fish. A fish angel.

06-30
02:59

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