My First Writing Job
My First Writing Job In late August 1967, I was reduced to living in my broken-down Buick Special at the site of a farmhouse in rural Michigan that had burned down and was now a secluded Lover’s Lane. I was 20 years old. It was the summer of the Detroit riots. The big […]
Free Range Ferals
Free Range Ferals It didn’t occur to me that my childhood life was unusual, not until later in life when I discovered that hardly anybody else’s mother was a motorcycle club mama.When she married one of the young gang members, she didn’t tell him the marriage would trigger the sale of the house we lived […]
Moire
Moire A short story (5,675 words) Jacob Voz met Moire when he delivered another iteration of a superconductive boat motor to the Marine Science Institute. He opened the door into the lab and saw a woman in a fluorescent orange bikini sitting at a workbench full of electronics equipment. She looked to be about […]
Anne Hedonia
Anne Hedonia A memoir 2,710 words I didn’t know that Anne had died until I saw a notice in the classifieds that her condo in Montecito was in foreclosure. My first emotion was schadenfreude: hah, she couldn’t keep up with the payments! But it turned out that she stopped making payments because she was […]
Mr. Blondo
Mr. Blondo by Colin Campbell 2,059 words I never met a billionaire until my niece married one. The reception was up in Mission Canyon at the Rockwood venue of the Santa Barbara Women’s Club. The ballroom was mostly empty; a couple workmen were setting up a 16-foot TV screen on the stage. Outside […]