Rhonda woke up as she always did, sleeping alone on one side of a king-size bed. Occasionally she would tell herself that it was time to downsize to a one-person bed. Gary had been gone for almost a decade. She didn’t like to use the word ‘missing’. It sounded overdramatic; the type of word they … Continue reading Drowned Intruder

Adam dropped the gas can on the marble floor. The hollow thump of the red plastic container echoed through the expansive foyer. The house--Adam hated the word "mansion"--was around six thousand square feet. It had taken eight 5-gallon gas cans and four trips to the Exxon station, so far, to cover enough of the place … Continue reading Rotting Horns

  Okay. First thing—Blake Shelton is not from Durant, Oklahoma. I say this because I am from Durant, Oklahoma. And I can tell you that the people of Durant love to claim the country music star as one of their own. There are frequent Blake Shelton sightings in Durant—mostly in the local Wal-Mart—that are of … Continue reading Dennis Rodman: Urban Legend

So my dad used to be the local merchant of death for deer. He owned and operated an archery store for a short time when I was a young man about to round out my first decade as a living breathing human. His short tenure as a weapons dealer coincided with and, honestly, was the … Continue reading Chekhov’s Sword