Short Shorts

Mother’s Milk (a Short Short)

Mother’s Milk (a Short Short)

“Lullaby and good night, thy mother’s delight” That angelic song, like Mother’s milk, filtering through rock and dirt, summoning me from the down below. I want to drink it like nectar. “Bright angels beside my darling abide” The...

Last Rights

Please God, let me die. Samuel Wood couldn’t mouth the words — too weak and drugged to move.  On a good day, he might’ve had the strength to at least move his head.  He heard the steady drip-drip of the morphine. Most days, he waited endlessly for...