“Do the Best with What You’ve Got” will appear in Dog Throat Journal in April, 2025 “Family Reunion,” “A Mind of Their Own,” “Sex,” “Fun Fact,” will appear in Main [...]
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 I Wouldn’t Say That, Exactly Books [...]
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 [...]
Brother’s Corvette What’s with the body on the floor? Maybe it’s a surprise guest? I thought the cannibals on this island only ate volunteers. What do you say we go out back and cut our own hair? [...]
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 [...]
