Tossing Twinkies into Oprah’s Concentration Camp

Herman Rosenblat’s Holocaust fable makes me wonder if the story of Moses was a work of fiction or if purple is a color.
Apples and bread tossed over a fence? At least Rosenblat didn’t write about turning the apples into applesauce to feed the starving masses.
Oprah should close her book club, quit the show, move to [...]

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The Smoke of Hell

I entered into a pact with God, a pow-wow of sorts, and promised to stop smoking. I asked the Heavenly Father to keep my lover alive, and in exchange for a miracle, I promised to never again smoke.
My lover Shawn’s sudden madness– a demon possession it seemed at the time– shook me up terribly. Physicians [...]

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The Liberty Bell, Ansbach

One Hundred Forty-First Signal Battalion was placed on alert moments after we departed for the Liberty Bell. If we had left just a few minutes later, we would not have been permitted off base and in all likelihood, would have been called into formation to stand at attention for hours, awaiting pull-out orders. Our unit [...]

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In Company of Taylors

Private First Class Davitch was reading an outdated copy if the Stars and Stripes newspaper as Lisa and I entered the barracks room after chow. I intended to alert my roommates that a female was entering our private space, but Lisa rushed inside before I could stop her.
I shouted “female on the floor,” but Davitch [...]

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Bavarian Chocolate

“Have you been to the Liberty Bell?” Lisa asked, removing a laminated meal card from the left-rear pocket of a tight-fitting pair of camouflage pants. I reached for my wallet, kept on the right side of my ass under a buttoned flap and took out identification to account for my meal.
Soldiers who lived in apartment [...]

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2008 Christmas Writing Contest Ends Midnight Christmas Eve

All submissions must be made in the craigslist literary forum
Word Limit:  2400 characters (not words, characters).
Theme:  Three Kings of Orient

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A Christmas in Bavaria– Verse III

I would rather have been alone on Christmas Eve than spend another night at the home of the Baptist missionaries. If ever I was forced to read aloud from the book of Luke again, I would spit, I thought. The Bible study drained me emotionally and being near the elderly couple during my time of [...]

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Why Panhandling on the Subways Became Illegal

For almost a decade, this advertisement on New York City subway systems haunted me:
“Panhandling on the subway is illegal. Give to a reputable charity instead– UJA Federation is one such charity”.
Having worked at ‘charities’ for more than twenty years, I viewed the crackdown on homeless people who worked with cups in the tunnels as a [...]

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UJA Federation Denies Madoff Losses

The UJA Federation of New York released a statement today, insisting that the mega clearing house for Jewish charitable dollars was not affected by the Madoff scandal. I don’t believe a word of the press release and am certain, that eventually, the money grubbing whores will come clean and admit how many millions, if not [...]

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A Christmas In Bavaria — Chapter II

Specialist Foster introduced me to the Reverend and Mrs. Davenport outside the gates of Barton Barracks because the missionaries did not have military identification and were not permitted to drive onto the secure communications installation. They were parked across the street from the guard shack where taxis typically waited for G.I.’s leaving post, in need [...]

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