A Day at the Beach

“A real dinosaur,” Dad absorbed the miracle below with eyes identical to his son’s.

Memories I can Say I Have Lived

I, Victor Paul Scerri, once married to a Norwegian woman in England, visited her family one year after the wedding.…

When the Music died

Greg chewed down his bottom lip as he struggled with the entangled tie around his white shirt-collar. The thing around…

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

Sometimes I wish I was dead. No, I’m not suicidal.  I just want to sleep. Figure that’s the only way…

Eileen

Another wedding anniversary approaches. It is number seventeen. My dear husband, Lee, would say, “But it feels like 40!” Then…

Good in a Few Weeks

Joe stared down at his stocking feet below the silly papered gown and waited for the doctor to come back. He…

Where Are You?

The day you were born my sweet child,  I cried and stared in awe and wonderment. I dreamed of all…

The General’s Ghost

 I’ll burn it down before they can move it. This house has been in our family for one hundred and fifty…

I Wrote a ‘Dear John’ Letter to God

This article was originally published in Medium on Easter 2018. What I knew As far as I knew, God was the…

The Thief

Good morning. Well not so good at the moment. How could a Monday morning go from typical to disastrous within the space of five minutes? People are screaming at me, pointing fingers, yelling at the security guards…