Meltdown in the Hay

As I was walking out of class one day, I found a small envelope with a picture inside with a small note, that simply said, “So much for a smooth landing” in 2006.

Hint

I found this in the book “What Women Want Men to Know,” by Barbara DeAngelis, PhD.

Do You Realize?

I don’t know who these people were, I don’t know if the note was actually delivered or just written as a sort of catharsis, but the whole story is right there.

Blue Note

Found by my son Phillip, 6 years old, on the street while riding his bike.

The Pledge

I walked out of my (shitty) apartment one spring morning in 1991 and found this message scotch taped to every post and pole along three blocks of McClintock Road. I use the find regularly in my fiction writing classes, and it still moves me after all these years. I wish the scanner could capture the … Continued

Hello Cody

These three pages from a Hello, Kitty sticky pad fell from a book that my girlfriend was browsing at Goodwill. Neither of us can recall what the book was. We think there are three interwoven layers here – first, the obsessive “I love Cody/Cody is Cute/Cody is Funny” repetitive text, then the furious counter-offensive “I … Continued