Fiction fueled by music and an irreverent imagination
|| 🎧 Music: It’s Your Time by Ryan Russell || Nights like this, death comes sweet as candy and cruel as coincidence. A gun in hand is a promise, like a left hook or an engagement ring. I am that promise, sworn to maintain order, defend members, protect the club. This ‘sergeant-at-arms’ patch means I […]
|| 🎧 Music: Good Feeling by Flo Rida || Never thought I’d be sorry to say goodbye to the Shiloh Valley Veteran’s Hospital. Spent most every day of my eighteen-month residence daydreaming about the moment I’d bust out. Always imagined myself hauling ass out the front door and hollering ‘freebird’ until I didn’t have any […]
|| 🎧 Music: River by Bishop Briggs || North Dakota / 1883 Papa had been right, damn his puny parched heart. Phillip hadn’t the stones to settle the land. Now he was sleeping beneath the dirt beside Papa and she was hard pressed to conjure a tear for either of them. Perched on the porch […]
|| 🎧 Music: With You I Am by Cody Johnson || 🎧 Alternate: Sugar by Robin Schulz || Bone weary. Six days straight. As a drug dealer this time. A month ago, a pimp. Before that, life was a blur. Maybe it was time to get out. Thought about it every time he came home. […]
|| 🎧 Music: Muddy Waters by The Gospel Whiskey Runners || You know you’ve made it to the bigs when the smoke shop truck comes to you. And we’re not talking delivery. We’re talking pick up. But the thing you don’t count on is that making it to the bigs and staying in the bigs are two […]
|| 🎧 Music: A Sky Full Of Stars by The Piano Guys (Coldplay) || The sky was still dark when we were rousted from our cots, fitted with oak claymores and driven into the damp fields high above the shore. We stumbled over the soggy terrain, scattering like grouse in the salty fog and scrambling […]
|| 🎧 Music: Raise Your Glass by P!nk || He motions her into the observation booth, though the set of his jaw lets her know he’s not happy about it. Their long and cantankerous history was about to get another kink in it. He hands her the roster. “Sarge says you gotta pick one off […]
|| 🎧 Music: What Love Can Do by Bruce Springsteen || The slick shale of the Taruan cliffs gave under Addax’s boot but Rhageous steadied her with a wing, the speed and strength of the parchment thin skin and intricate bone webbing surprising her. Looking out across the cerulean Ogee Sea, she said, “I believe in […]
|| 🎧 Music: Slow Turning by John Hiatt || Only ten pints of blood in a female body, right? Looked like most of it was smeared on the sheets. Stuffing them into a trash bag, he pulled his cap over the tops of his ears, headed out the door and down the stoop. Another five […]
|| 🎧 Music: Finding Beauty by Craig Armstrong || They say you reap what you sow, but that’s a crock. I worked two jobs to put him through law school and ran the household while he worked eighty-hour weeks. He thanked me by shagging senior partners, embezzling client funds, and making a public spectacle of […]