“Gotcha Covered” will be in the upcoming Hidden Peak Review “Didn’t See That Coming,” “Suburb,” and “Chicken Man,” three prose poems, will appear in Doubly Mad, in April, 2025 [...]
Sad Maryanne I’m a secret message to myself. According to the rules, the brain is made up of 170 billion cells. It doesn’t matter if you’re below sea level or above sea level; you can still have [...]
Raymond and Louella I’m sleeping with one eye open and my emergency escape bag stowed under my bunk. Sure, last night I may have had one too many, and got can’t-feel-my-teeth drunk, but it seemed [...]
From Lucky Animals: There’s a Fix for That Do you prefer adding or subtracting? Yeah, me too. Fortunately, I was raised by a circus family, so I got a head start. Some people think there [...]
Reading of “Hat Store Window” at: https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkxx8vSI57Lv8-MIVpVu-L6aq5FR9T-rh8b Hat Store Window Thanks to my invisibility cloak, I’m enjoying the [...]
Lifeboat? I clean my house so visitors won’t see the dirt. They don’t know what they’re missing. Naturally, the more you say you’re in love, the less you are, but to set the record straight, [...]
Links to purchase Brad’s books: Lucky Animals No. Wait. I Can Explain. Momentary Turbulence de/tonations Pink X-Ray WordinEdgewise Books also available at Amazon and [...]
Abandoned House I want to get out of the car. And why shouldn’t I? It’s parked, isn’t it? Outside a house. An abandoned house. I like abandoned houses. I like to look at them. This one [...]
Poison Darts I love the zoo. Especially the paper tigers and the ghost of a chance. It’s a big old world out there, isn’t it? Let’s fence it in. People tend to think I’m just a carpenter [...]
Diamondback I’m organizing my thoughts, those cuddly love snakes. I was going to hire a tutor, but I’d only be cheating myself. My doctor says that after three weeks of bedrest and the [...]
