Secrets

Secrets Leopold Café is always crowded. Their Danish and coffee are superb. The service is awful.Bill was at a table sipping his second cup of cappuccino and munching on a huge piece of coffee cake. Two weeks ago, he sat at this very same table. Back then, his misery...

Editing my memory

Editing my memory I left Global Financial Inc. early today. Couldn’t take it. At the moment am sitting at Sam’s café waiting for Claire. Some jittery clients screaming at me. I may be a financial analyst but not a magician. Today the ink was black and smelled like...

Everything matters to Werner

Everything matters to Werner I visit a gym and have gotten to know many of my fellow old ‘gymnasts’. One of them is Werner who  asked me to read this story he wrote and then corrected himself and said no, it’s a poem, that he wrote. He handed me what he wrote and did...

Smell expert

Smell expert I never knew Charlie R when I was in elementary school. We sometimes played together in the neighborhood playground where I lived just outside of Columbus Ohio. When I was 12 we moved away and that is the last time I saw Charlie. Many years later I read a...

The old Bow-legged Antelope: A Noah Saga story

The old Bow-legged Antelope Why did Noah recruit an oldie to join the younger animals on the Ark? He told his recruiter, The Prince from Minsk “Get us one animal that can teach us about aging. I don’t want someone who can talk about aging but instead can show us what...

The Noah Saga synopsis and posted stories

The Noah Saga synopsis and posted stories The Noah Saga is based on the biblical story of Noah’s Ark. In this transformation of that bible story, animals on the Ark are represented as people dressed in animal garb. The ‘people’ represent a range of human experiences....