SHF_FA_UpstateGhosts // 01_initial HAVE NOT YET CORRECTED OR REVISED THIS as of April 26, 2021 This event took place in upstate New York one drizzly weekend when I was staying in the Hudson Valley alone. I had bought a couple of old books at a used-book store

SHF_RE_Y2K_JackRay_TheWellDigger - 2016 // 01_initial One morning when I was on our perch of yard, imagining and posing and contemplating like that, something took me by surprise: a big, deep laugh of an explosion. I felt it go through my body, then heard different parts of the

Is included in: NotesA_WhileTeen Summer was half over, and though we had all worked hard to make the development look nice, we hadn’t sold a single lot. We were convinced that we had—in Dad’s words—the prettiest, most sensible land development in our part of Missouri.

SHF_RE_Y2K_ackRay_PureDirt The white mud that came up own of the well hole as the big rig hammered deeper and deeper, forming a white mountain-cap on the pile where Dutch regularly extruded fresh tubes of inner Earth from his cable-hung, sharp-ended pipe. The virginal

SHF_RE_LastKiss - 1994 // 01_initial The birds he had seen no longer had the mosquito craziness; they were sitting on the wires now, looking like clothespins on a backyard clothesline. The sky was a brilliant and fierce orange. The tractor blew a thin smoke into the cooling air, sometimes

SHF_SF12_KillingAliens // xxx The Showdown Gary was reading a novel in his bed. Which is to say, he was hynotized. He had not moved for a very long time except to turn pages. There was an uncomfortable pressure against his ribcage. Some part of him thought, "I could

Rormerly “Braggart” I have never been very dextrous, which I bring up because just today I had to fix the furnace for my landlord — a nice old man who wouldn’t harm anybody, but he is miserably dumb, unbelievably dumb — and crawling behind the furnace in his cold basement with

Phillip Shadely — lover of the dimly lit, lonesomeness. There was a hard rain outside, but Phil was not yet ready to leave, anyway. He was very nervous about the meeting his friend had arranged and had already tried to think of a way out of it. None of the excuses