TAKEN ROOT Ryan E. Felton FATHER Charlie didn’t like it at all when we told him they were building a new house on the vacant lot. He loves to play out there, you know, with the neighbor kid. Tall grass and rock pits and ditches for hide-and-seek. Big hills to tumble down, dirt clods toContinue reading “Taken Root”
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Stolen (audio short)
(art by Matt Helfrich) Listen to my short story “Stolen,” as read by me: https://surfingbaku.tumblr.com/post/156846827003/stolen-by-ryan-e-felton-read-by-the-author
Implicated
Implicated Imagine me, five years old, and scared to death to open my eyes — to take even the bitsiest peep — during prayers at the dinner table, at church services, or weddings. Was it some rule set by my God-fearing mother, a warning from a Sunday school teacher, or just basic intuition? Don’t lookContinue reading “Implicated”
Tannenbaum
The perfect little family pulled up in a burgundy Ford Pinto and toddled out in their snow boots onto the roadside. They were the seventeenth perfect little family to arrive that day. There was a red-nosed poppa, with his funny flap hat and trimmed mustache, and a blushing momma. A little boy and a littlerContinue reading “Tannenbaum”
Projection
Projection I met the devil at the Crossroads of America. I was fourteen. The last week of October that year, my father rounded up me and Mom and one carryon bag, stuffed with only a change of clothes for each of us and some toothpaste.Continue reading “Projection”
