Category: Out of Print

Originally Published in Front Porch Review, Volume 9, July 2017 I recognized my supper date as soon as she rode into the Olive Table parking lot on a knobby-tired Mongoose Sabrosa 3×9 mountain bike with a pink basket and a Greenpeace flag on a fiberglass pole. My ex-step-daughter spotted me, waved a gloved hand, and…

“Life still sucks, Mr. B. Beauty just isn’t enough.” First published in Teach. Write. Fall~Winter 2021. Second Period I was lecturing on the role of the Chorus in Greek tragedies when Cheyenne Resnik burst in, “Mr. B, you’ve got to get me out of American Lit before I hurt somebody.” “What’s the problem?”   “Mrs.…

Published in Brown Bag Online, Issue 1: Fawn, July 24, 2020. His wife Jo was already at work by the time he awoke. He’d submitted his grades after midnight the night before. She would administer a multi-section final at noon and grade the rest of the day. By then he’d be in St. Paul visiting…

Halfway Down the Stairs, March 2010 Michael has come for tests, but memory is a tricky thing. Sometimes you know the answers before you can even formulate the question.https://halfwaydownthestairs.net/2010/03/01/tests-by-paul-lewellan/