Happiness, it seems, is just a space away.

From the darkness

You wake at night for no reason. Your senses are at their peak. You're fully aware, self aware.

The Letter

Your mind wanders. You're disturbed by a memory. You blurt out a response. Did anyone hear?

Hiding Under Covers

Who am I? I am the least among you. I am the homeless.

Short Stories

Below are abstracts from short stories that I have written. To read a story, click on the story's heading. They are listed in date order, with the most recent story that I've written shown first. At this point, I think the most recent two are my best and I recommend reading them.

From the darkness

A simple story about a man living alone and coming to a new level of existence.

The Letter

A story about a man living alone in Berlin as an English teacher and a translator. He is asked to translate a letter from someone in France that hits home with him. This is another experimental story in that it deals with a bit with a neurosis.

She used the F-word.

This is an experimental story for me in writing about very adult themes. It's a very sexual story--not graphically detailed, but clearly sexual--about a man's sexual abilities and how they play out with a woman he meets. Please don't read it if you're offended by sexual content.

No one ever gave me flowers

A simple short story about a fellow who normally is energetic and in control of his life, but finds himself sad and reflective. In the midst of this down period, it occurs to him that no woman ever loved him enough to give him flowers.

My therapist won't return my calls.

A single, divorced, lonely man has a dilema: his therapist won't return his calls. Being mentally stable and having no serious emotional problems at the time, the situation is tolerable. However, he feels a bit insecure being adrift in this way and seeks alternative methods.

Concetta

This short story is written in the style of a diary, but is interlaced with some dialog but only when the diary is open and present, dialog within the hearing of the diary. It tells pieces of the story of a young Italian American girl living in a small town near Boston.

Hiding Under Covers

Commento poetico e narrativa sui barbone negli Stati Uniti, si cambio in una storia per un tocco personale.

Purgatory for a Technology Heretic

A dark piece set in New Orleans, its about a character who is temporarily working the night shift at a government facility installing Microsoft Windows on computers. The protagonist believes he is condemned to this work for his blaspheme against Microsoft and Bill Gates.

Calvino Exercise

As a writing exercise, I wrote this piece in which I attemptted to reproduce Italo Calvino's writing style by writing a few paragraphs to mingle with his paragraphs. If you read these paragraphs, see if you can figure out which ones are mine.