Author: Michael Flett

They were bored teenagers playing grown-up games with no thought of responsibility or the larger consequences, Ricky Kasslin de facto ringleader with his tattoos and ready supply of

It’s another day of death and taxes, the inevitabilities of the small, sad circle of life at Bacon and Son’s Hog Slaughtering, owned by Lester Bacon who had

Crying at the graveside of her mother Christina as the procession of cars depart from the funeral and offered little comfort by her Aunt Cora Nomed with whom

Avaricious and acquisitive, Dean Murdock has just bought his eleventh theatre in the San Fernando Valley for the Spotlite Theatre chain, his intention not to convert the building

Waiting on the shore as the waters lap against the rocks sits a monster, watching with one eye, a cyclops which exists on the edge of society, of

It’s a shaky new start for Megan Gordon following the death of her father a few months previously, a new city, a new home and a new school

He wasn’t the best husband, he wasn’t the best father, his wife Emma obviously struggling with the demands of the sleepless, crying baby and likely postpartum depression, he

An untenured professor of economics, Doctor Philip Loder knows the value of things, including himself, currently worth more than he is paid, and the value of objects, not

Jasper James has had enough, enough of being taken for granted, of being treated like a gopher rather than a production assistant, enough of his supposed friend Champ

A young man moves to Iowa in the fall of 1946, hoping to become a writer, placing his typewriter on the heavy wooden desk of the home he