Perched on a rectangular wall sign above gate eighteen, a bird stared out the floor to ceiling bay windows onto the tarmac. Whitewash covered the number eight on the placard and was the only signal that the bird occupied the vast space that was terminal one at the Kansas City airport. Easily, several tennis matches […]

From the point of view of our cat, Boo. Putting my nose to the thin sheet of vinyl, I sniffed at the cool air beyond then pushed my way through the door and out onto the deck. The deck was cold and old, like me, I thought with a smirk. I sat and licked my […]

I held my rod high over my head and leaned forward pushing through mats of bowed tules, whip willows, and rose bush. After the five-minute battle, I arrived on a sand-filled beach where a long run ran into a deeper pool. A single trout rose on what looked like white mayflies. I looked at my […]

The steak smelled delicious. Picking up the fork and knife, the diner sliced a piece of meat and shoved the beef into his mouth. He never tasted anything more savory. There were the usual saltiness and acid from some sort of briny wash but then underlying, or perhaps overlying, was a flavor entirely different and […]

I walked out of Campmor in Paramus, NJ with a blaze orange, fifty-meter, Bluewater rope over my shoulder and drove the hour home wide-eyed and grinning from ear to ear. That night, I slept as restless as a youngster on Christmas eve and dreamed not of sugarplums, but of the rope and I on our […]

The hill ahead was loose and steep, and as I moved alone through brush and cactus, the jagged scrub pulled at my pant legs. My mind wandered. Tiny creatures tore at the cotton hems and threw their little spears into my calves. They heaved rocks at my ankles where the granite boulders settled beneath my […]