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The parking lot of the Glenview Community Center in Orange Mound is lined with campaign signs as my mom rolls my wheelchair to the passenger door of our battered Toyota Avalon. “This all sounds stupid,” I say, grabbing my legs and swinging them outside the car door. “Don’t call things stupid. Besides, Trey, you loveContinue reading “First Day of Practice”

“Do you want to go see your mommy today?” I ask. Madi squints her eyes up real tight like she does when she’s figuring something out. “I don’t know. It’s not very fun there.” Madi and I are both sitting on the couch. She has her copy of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom splayed out acrossContinue reading “What Alice Would Say”

I wrote this for the NYC Midnight flash fiction challenge the same weekend I was finishing “Haunted Mansions Are Never Wheelchair Accessible.” I almost gave up on this story because I wasn’t feeling the prompts (ghost story / walking trail / contact solution) and because of the Crippling Self-Doubt Monster, the terrifying, real-life antagonist inContinue reading “Never Go to Bed Angry”

A score of people wandered the smoldering ruins, treaded carefully over scorched and splintered wood, searched for any words that remained. They wore their brown robes hiked up short over their ankles, their feet shod with sturdy-soled boots instead of sandals. They wore their faces long and solemn. The apprentice stooped amidst a pile ofContinue reading “The Stories Lost in Flame”