Happy Hour A Truncated Chronology -Geoff O’Keeffe To Nikki, for her courage. One day in late summer, 1968, Jim’s dad was no longer at home. And Jim understood this was to be permanent. Not that he had been there much in the prior fifteen years. Maybe he was there in the late fifties and early … [read more]
Fiction
Urge
URGE A Parochial School Revenge Tale Six year-old Simon had peed himself, soaking the heavy, salt-and-pepper corduroy pants that, along with a crisp white shirt and green woolen sweater, were part of the school uniform he was required to wear. Urine filled his tiny wooden chair and ran down its legs into a puddle … [read more]
Deportees
Deportees I. Jack looked down at his watch. “Shit, only ten-thirty. Six hours to go,” he thought. It was over a hundred degrees already. There wasn’t a cloud in the broad, blue, desert sky. Translucent waves of heat rose from the parched brown hills, the languid river and the barren scablands appear as if seen … [read more]