Fiction

  • This is not a comedy

    GALE–Eighty-eight year old woman.  Wears modest clothing.  ELEANOR–Seventy-nine year old woman.  Keeps her white hair in long braids.  Wears floral dresses. Time: January: 1973.  Place: Small cabin with simple kitchen and living quarters.  Wind howls outside.  ELEANOR stands in the kitchen, chopping onions.  She wipes her eyes with her sleeve.  GALE enters, carrying a load…


  • The duck and the artist

    “I don’t know why you make such big deal about it!” “Dad, it’s the first time a major curator has shown any interest in my work!  This could be-” “Interest in your work?!  Those sad, ugly pictures you make?!  What mom and me do to you, make such sad work?!  Eh?!” “Please, don’t start with…