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SHORT FICTION: LOAFER

Only two types of people in this world, the old man says.             The greenpinkblue glow of a beer-on-tap sign hangin’ on the brick wall forms a halo over his baldin’ head. He’s holdin’ the same bottle of Sam Adams he’s been sippin’ at the past fifty-six minutes.             I’m at the Green Dragon on Union and Marshall, it’s ten to midnight, and I’m sittin’ at the far corner of the bar in a swirl of cigarette smoke starin’ at cracks in the black stained surface, and for the past fifty-six minutes I’ve been hidin’ quick glances between the cracks and old man.             He’s sittin’ in a black J. Press and sportin’ a pair of shiny Mint Simmons.            In my mind I’m seein’ young Longinus Lechers marchin’ through the black doors like he did in my old man’s J ...

POETRY: IN MEDIAS RES

  I was born in a bed,  baptized in the sweat of my             mother, into trouble, torn from the warmth of a             womb, in a bubble, bloated in a black sac of             water, in sunlight, stuck to the promise of a             tomb, in a body, bound to a soul fitted in             flesh, in space, salted by stars and planets of             mud, into darkness, divorced from the loins of my             father, in a time, tangled in minutes, days, dust and             blo...

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I live in Lynchburg, VA. I teach at Central Virginia Community College. I've been married to my best friend for almost six years. We have two children. I'm a musicophile. Welcome to my blog. I'll be posting lots of stuff.  Essays.  Poems.  Short fiction. Etc. Cheers, JKM