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billsheehan1
- May 27
- 18 min
FUTURE UNKNOWABLE
Me? I’m the Honorable Kid Killian, speaking to a prison psychiatrist. A mental defective. Sorry. I mean a mental detective but still...
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billsheehan1
- May 27
- 22 min
FIX-IT HOUSE
“What’s the matter with this apartment? You sure as hell loved it after we got married. It excited you. You had hundreds of ideas for...
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billsheehan1
- May 27
- 33 min
DEATH HOUSE
I met him at Liam’s Irish Pub. He sat at the bar, but at the end, next to the wall. He was tall so he stood out from the crowd. He...
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billsheehan1
- May 27
- 16 min
EXOTIC FOOD
A fat man goes into a fast-food restaurant and orders his food. The cashier says that it will be a minute or two for his food to arrive....
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billsheehan1
- May 27
- 5 min
EXHAUSTED
Once in a while, I feel as if a tsunami is forming at a great distance, getting closer every day, and it’s focused on me. I don’t know...
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billsheehan1
- May 27
- 10 min
EVERYTHING ENDS
Everything ends. Family, other relatives, friends, colleagues, acquaintances, and you are all temporary. Everything your five senses can...
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billsheehan1
- May 27
- 13 min
JUSTICE
I was far too young to die. I was murdered. But when you get murdered at the young age of thirty-one, your vengeful spirit goes on living...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 12 min
WINE-MAKING WEEKEND
I woke to a pleasing memory of my grandparents. A memory, not forgotten, but possibly fading. It was as if some internal stimulus was...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 9 min
TIME
Time. Inescapable, yet treasured. Mostly a welcomed pleasure, but often unappreciated. Every LIFE holds the hand of TIME as a child holds...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 18 min
THE WOOD CARVER
It’s not true that wood carvers have a chip on their shoulder. Wood carvers may be very boring people or extremely interesting, and they...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 16 min
THE POND
She'd been distracted by sudden death. Her mother died last year. Her father's death was less than year later. She was now driving to her...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 13 min
THE BLACK DOOR
It was a dark and stormy night … Fuck you Edward Bulwer-Lytton, screw you Madeleine L’Engle, but most of all, piss off, Snoopy. It really...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 6 min
MAID OF HONOR
I like water. Something about it attracts me, like a pleasant experience that I want to always have. I think that water likes me, too,...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 11 min
KARMA
The horror of death is rarely seen the way a soldier sees it in war. At least the way a soldier with at least a rudimentary conscientious...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 8 min
HITCH-HIKER
“Shit,” I yelled as I ran to the parking lot in a torrential rainstorm. Just my luck, I muttered to myself. I had been working late in...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 42 min
A GHOST STORY
My name is Bill Comstock. Most of my life I’ve been haunted by a paranormal event that occurred when I had just turned...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 5 min
WALKING IN A FOREST
We walked together, side by side, hand in hand, with our shared, radiant smiles warming us, and our mutual love comforting us. Sandy,...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 5 min
HOW SNAKES GOT THEIR LONG BODIES
Once upon a time there was a land with a beautiful green forest. At the edge of the forest there was a huge, beautiful tree, whose...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 7 min
HOW GIRAFFES GOT THEIR LONG NECKS
Once upon a time, in the vast plains of Africa, there lived two giraffe families. Each had a mother and a father. One family had a...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 95 min
DODGE CITY, KANSAS, 1871
Twenty-five-year-old, well-educated schoolteacher, Tom Hawken, must leave Boston quickly to avoid the consequences of a false paternity...
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