I wrote this story for Round 8 of SPARK. To see the photograph that inspired it, go to http://www.getsparked.org/spark8/helen-whittaker-and-edite-haberman This story won second place in the June 2010 Global Short Story Competition at http://www.globalshortstories.net/index.html The trouble with Adam I’m waiting in the reception area at Happy Bunnies day care. In one corner of the room [...]
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Missing
Hot off the press: the piece I’ve just written for SPARK – a quarterly collaborative project in which artists and writers rub sparks off each other. The story was written in response to a photograph by Jim Doran. Check out Jim’s piece Ancestor Moon which he created after reading my poem Eclipse. I LOVE it! [...]
Getting the job done
4:30 pm Tony sits behind the executive desk in his office, perched on the edge of the high-backed leather chair. He is silhouetted against the drawn blinds, head bowed as if in prayer, his only movement a gentle motion of the hands, as if counting the rosary. A police siren passes on the street outside [...]
