Description: #Audio. #FlashFiction. Inspired by world cup soccer and a recent visit to Madrid. Excerpt: I apologize for my bad language skills. “Me Español es muy mal y Mexicana,” I explain. He counters, “Me Ingles es como humo.” Like smoke. But I understand more Spanish than I can speak, and even though the Castillian accent […]

Description: #Audio. #Blog This will be our year. All of ours. Excerpt: I know I’m not the only person who was more than ready to kick 2018 out the door, and welcome in the promise of a new year. Like a brand new pad of drawing paper, a brand new spiral notebook, a brand new […]

Description: #Audio. #Blog Entenmann’s coffeecake – the taste of home. Excerpt: And more often than not, the dessert would be an Entenmann’s coffeecake. The kind with a crumb topping and pastry cheese filling. That taste, slightly metallic from the foil tray, but always just enough sweetness to temper the strongest of coffees (or the brattiest […]

Description: #Audio. #Blog Musings on trains, real and toy. Excerpt: Train whistles never sound anything but mournful. My friend Stonefish says it’s just the physics of sound, but I think it’s more. I think there’s a romanticism associated with trains that never quite leaves us. Links and References Read the text of this piece at […]

Description: #Audio. #Blog Recording from Bossier City, LA, where we drove to see my aunt. Excerpt: I had a pot of coffee sent to the room (literally, they sent an urn) and we shared one enormous slice of cheesecake, and it was a nice way to catch up without anyone having to wash a dish. […]

Description: #Audio. #Blog Sheridan’s: an Irish whiskey drink I first tasted in Mexico. Excerpt: And you can’t buy it in the states. So every time I visit my mother in Mexico, I make sure to have enough pesos leftover to buy a bottle of Sheridan’s and a bottle of really good Tequila at the duty-free […]

Description: #Audio. #Blog Tree toppers, as requested by Nuchtchas. Excerpt: Two trees means two tree toppers. The main tree, which is seven-and-a-half feet tall and is in the dining room, has a traditional angel on top. For the longest time, when Fuzzy and I both worked nights doing tech support for Gateway, we had a […]

Description: #Audio. #Prayer A series of advent prayers, for each of us, and for the world. Excerpt: In this holiday season, May the darkness of winter Be dispelled in this festival of lights, And may the darkness of ignorance Be dispelled in the strength Of compassion, reason, And sharing. Guest Readers Christine Fiore (Megapodtastic) Mark […]

Description: #Audio. #FlashFic. Zoe catches her parents in a compromising position, and Basil helps her process. Excerpt: “Let me put it this way… you know the song ‘I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus?’” Zoe waited for partner to nod. Then she continued. “Well, Mom wasn’t tickling Ed underneath his beard. She was… let’s just say […]

Description: #Audio. #FlashFic. Teenagers, magic, and Christmas don’t always go together so well. Excerpt: Helen chuckled. “Oh, if only. Just think how much easier life would be without your friends constantly asking if you could just make their homework appear or speed the time ahead so they didn’t have to go to gym. No, Magical […]