Matted hair covers my palms It’s not mine Not kinky like mine Not dark like mine I hadn’t realized how hard I was pulling When I took a blade to his throat I brush the hair from my hands As if that would wash away…

The first rule of Detection Club: play fair Rather, the zeroth rule because rule one Is introduce the criminal early on And keep their thoughts off-air The next three rules restrain the gothic trend No ghosts, no made-up drugs, no high-tech tools No more than…

The grandparents I never met parents of the father I loved secretive though he was about them, him and them Grandma and grandpa died before I came along never even met my mother rarely were spoken of Mentioned only essentially names, dates – never more…

  It’s early Too early And there’s still too much to do And there’s still so much I can’t get through But we’re on to new beginnings And soon to some place new Just need to pack one last thing Okay one or two… The…

It wasn’t much of a mystery. The facts were plain as day. She had opened the door of her life …just a crack. And the culprit stole her heart away.

They say the small town life is the quiet life And word travels fast when something happens out here But now that someone’s missing, someone’s murdered, and something’s been stolen Everyone is claiming an alibi or to be in the clear Now mister Buffet, eager…

I watch the sun’s slant in the gloaming hours energy soaks the wood planks on the floor long after the last box has been loaded but before the first memories folded us out the door