Category Archives: literature

Moby Dick Amnesia

August 28, 2023 – 11:13 am

Everyone of my generation was forced to read Heman Merville’s MOBY DICK. THe first line of this epic novel “Call me Ishmael” was burned into our memories and teachers spent days trying to decipher the meaning of author, but none of us were aware of MOBY DICK’s voyage in American Literature having only sold 3000 […]

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BURNT ORANGE HERESY by Charles Willieford

June 3, 2023 – 2:58 am

I could have taken State Road Seven straight away by picking it up west of West Palm Beach, but because the old two-lane highway was used primarily by truck traffic barreling for Miami’s back door, into Hialeah, I stayed on U.S. 1 all the way to Boynton Beach before searching for a through road to […]

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Le Necrophile

December 11, 2022 – 12:16 am

Back in the late 1960s the biggest house in Quincy, Massachusetts was owned by a funeral director. His daughters were the most beautiful girls on the South Shore in 1967 and they introduced Cream to their admirers. I was one of them. So was an apprentice embalmer for their father. The other suitors joked that […]

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Waiting For Andre

May 2, 2022 – 1:04 pm

Whenever the question arises at a bar about who was the greatest athlete, I allow everyone to offer their opinions. “Jim Thorpe.” He was a multi-talented competitor. “Ali.” Ali was a great fighter. Once the debate has lost steam I say, “Andre the Giant.” They argue that the Frenchman was only a wrestler, but Andre […]

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The Ruins Of The Acropolis

July 23, 2021 – 3:24 pm

The years pile on us like a stack of cards from losing hands at a casino. Strangers ignore my passing and friends failed to recognize me. Ancient as dust I regard my body in elongated shadows at dawn and dusk. A ruin like the Acropolis. Once great, but now shattered, but then I recall the […]

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