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CRAIG W STEELE: Requiem

Artistic, Poetry, Submissions, , , ,

it’s been three days since your funeral

a white-crown sparrow pecks incessantly at the patio door,
wings fluttering madly to remain airborne, feet flailing the air

i blow a kiss, smile through fresh currents of briny dew and wave just as madly until,
satisfied, you fly away
one last time

Craig W. Steele lives in the lake-effect snow belt of northwestern Pennsylvania where, by day, he’s a university biology professor. He enjoys writing both short fiction and poetry and dreams of becoming a widely-read unknown writer.

GUY PRESTON: Last Breath of a Cowboy

Submissions, Touching, , ,

Grandpa was terminal. My flight was tomorrow, the tickets were booked; I had delayed telling him until now.

He looked at me, but his gaze spanned a thousand miles. Then he smiled, smoothing wrinkled cheeks and pulling ridged scars taut across his jaw.

“…Long time since I been to Texas…”

It’s been two years, three months, and nineteen days since Guy was in Texas. This is his fifteenth 50-word story.