Read Short Family & Friends
listed below in order of the date they were published, with new stories first.
Tom eased his old ’63 Ford Falcon into Poplar Bluff like he’d done a hundred times before. He didn’t have a plan, not really.
Time can feel like a strange river. Some days drift by slow as molasses; others rush past like a jet cutting through a winter sky.
What happens when a brother and sister develop a psychic connection.
The next week moved slow and sweet, the way weeks do when two young people are falling deeper into each other. Billy was a senior, working afternoons in the superintendent’s office,
Billy and Laura had grown up in the same Missouri countryside, where gravel roads curled through oak trees and church bells
At Southeast Missouri there is no game that is more important than basketball
A poem that revolves around the author’s experience of aging and the cognitive challenges that come with it, particularly memory loss and confusion.
Meg is retired. Her friend doesn't turn up for a cuppa at Meg's home. Then there's a confused parcel delivery. What's going on?