The Boy at the Plate
A son facing the biggest at-bat of his young life. A father facing the question of whether winning is the point—or just an excuse to be present.
Sports · Fathers & sonsStories
Short stories, long echoes.
New and forthcoming stories about fathers and sons, second chances, long marriages, bad decisions, and the stubborn hope that tomorrow can be better than yesterday.
Midnight in Shinjuku
Tokyo, late 1970s. A crowded platform, a stranger in danger, and the terrible simplicity of choosing to move or look away.
Tokyo · Moral choiceCheck-Out Line, 1974
A young retail clerk on the graveyard shift, learning more about dignity and desperation than any management course could teach.
Work · ClassExit 42
A man in his sixties pulls off the freeway, intending only to stretch his legs—and collides with the unfinished business of his past.
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