Category: Fiction

I penned this piece shortly after Robin & I were married. We lived in an apartment on South Massey Street in Watertown, New York. I was still an Army Captain serving in Fort Drum’s 10th Mountain Division. We had just weathered our first “Ice Storm.” *****     December in...

A tale inspired by “Saranac Shelties” Author’s Note: My mom, Carol Monroe, brought home our first Shetland Sheepdog just after I graduated high school, shortly before I left for Cornell. Her name was “Lady”. She quickly adopted my father & was his faithful companion for the rest of his...

**********      Carlisle Mulrooney was three years old.  He sat by the living room window with his chin on the sill, sniffling the musty old window pane glass while he stared at the tree in his strange new yard.  His parents hadn’t replaced the green curtains that the previous...