Remains of the Hot Day
The day is hot. Spot, every spot heated up, up, up. Down, down beats the brightness from the hole in the sky. Air rises. Hope falls. I love it! From craggy…
Hot Dead Run
Sweat runs in rivulets and flits back in the oncoming breeze. Worn Reeboks pound out a desperate rhythm across gravel and cracked pavement. A pitiless Arizona…
Summer Heat, Warm Smiles
Dicey lay by the pool for the umpteenth afternoon of an endless Summer. The weather, heavy with humidity and oppressively hot, was perfect for a dip. Too much…
J4
They parked under a large sign that read J4. He commited the alphanumeric pair to memory while she opened the driver’s side door, giving a blast of hot air…
The Heat Wave with No End
It was hot outside. The kind of hot where refrigerator water feels like ice cubes sliding down to your stomach. So hot that you sometimes got a chill from your…
A Common and Savage Day
It would settle over the landscape, its perfumed touch sedating everything. The tree branches swayed in the breeze. The water lazily trickled along the…
Burnt Metal
It is always difficult to remember those first days. No one is still quite sure what happens. Hell, you were there right as it happened, and yet despite all of…
Under Pressure
Inspector Perry glanced furtively at the clock, beads of sweat forming on his brow. Then he directed his attention back to Doctor Layug. Behind him, the fan…
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The Little Unknown Baseball Player Series
It was the middle of the summer and another season of baseball was upon us. The heat was scorching the fields and players were hitting runs for their teams, it…
In the Midst
At last. It was a shining, golden hour, like the sun had moved closer to earth. A hyper-real, hyper-luminous glare, light stabbing furiously at earth, plants…