Press play for some mood music WAY LATE Nothing safe comes after midnight. At least that's how I've always seen it. Useless alley c...

Please click play to enjoy an audio reading NOIR DREAMS I imagine snapping the brim of a non-existent fedora after I find the Benny Goodman...

Please click play to enjoy an audio reading TWO GUYS AND A FLASK Inside a rundown trailer somewhere within the steel-framed h...

Please click play to enjoy an audio reading SUITCASES I got the suitcases out of the garage. I just need the big black one. Packing. Gotta ...

Please click play to enjoy an audio reading THE HOUSE OF CARDS His new house is now a reality. As is the excrutiating mortgage payments. He...

Please click play to enjoy an audio readin g BUMS CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS In the gutter, you tend to notice things normal people wouldn't d...

Please click play to enjoy an audio reading LOTTERY MAN Back when I worked at the luncheonette, I remember the guy used to come in every day...

Please click play to enjoy an audio reading OVER A HAMBURGER So here we were. Again. Staring at each other, this time over a hamburger durin...

Please click play to enjoy an audio reading I WEAR HIS JACKET The military jacket was crumpled in a sloppy ball on the floor of the a...

Please click play to enjoy an audio recording THE BOOTLEGGER His outfit was buried deep within the foothills of the North Carolina A...

Please click play to enjoy an audio reading WHAT SHE SAID She told him that he’d eventually harness a gift, which in all honesty ...

HER OTHER CHILDREN After working her shift, she barely had enough energy to disrobe, much less play with a toddler. But it had to be...

Please click play to enjoy an audio reading THE SUIT He looked at her, annoyed. Frustrated. Again, she was on one of her rampages and he wa...

The candles flicker as I sit and listen to the wind scare the bejesus out of me. Out of nowhere, it comes, and I think something is out th...

LAYOVER IN AN AIRPORT LOUNGE I was at the airport recently when I saddled up to a gentleman in the lounge. People were smoking. Sh...

I remember my old Sinatra Zippo that I picked it up on one of the Vegas trips that seem now like a figmant. For years to come, Fran...

I spent many a late night in diners and this is my ode to those great 24 hour joints where anyone can walk through the door... Back ...

HERE’S HOPING GIZMO WON’T BECOME MINCEMEAT Walking in, I noticed the sign. The sad sign. A desperate plea. And sort of hopeless....

NOIR DREAMS I imagine snapping the brim of a non-existent fedora after I find the Benny Goodman tape somewhere it shouldn’t be. ...