Author Archives: 31 Croft Road

They could have been together paddling north on Lake Champlain or crossed on foot through the Blue Ridge “Gap;” followed on the heels of Lewis and Clark or pitched a tent on the Brazos. They would have been at home … Continue reading →

Happy Birthday Dad. It has been awhile.  Have not stopped out to your beautiful park in more than a year. Strange how, when I stopped the last time, your name had become almost impossible to read where Cindy’s was still … Continue reading →

The room smelled old, powdered with the nausea ammonia smell that flavors sweat drenched clothing. Hard, pressurized water made hissing sounds in the adjacent room. Naked bodies entered, slowly. Not many were exiting. The carpeted red floor was adorned with … Continue reading →

“Just fixing old shit.” The voice was not harsh nor melancholy, flexed no urgency or whispered dejection. It was merely succinct in reality. The truck was old and looked like an abscessed tooth long uncared for. Red, rusty and layered … Continue reading →

I could not rightly tell you how it came that I had some empathy for them. My wife had been stung four times that summer. It was a time of high water, scads of frogs, snakes…and bees; many, many bees. … Continue reading →

I had driven by the house the very first time when I had moved to the farm eight years earlier. Set back about seventy yards from the county highway, rambler-styled, it angled east to west. It was the only house … Continue reading →

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Originally posted on 31 Croft Road:
He had the job of getting the four of them to church, his youngest daughter and the neighbor’s two. They were all about six. Semi-controllable. Or at least controllable by a Dad “look.” However control…

Originally posted on 31 Croft Road:
The Boys had been making the trip for close to fifty years. They had left a lot of rubber on the road.   This trip was like the others.  It took a while before they…

The Boys had been making the trip for close to fifty years. They had left a lot of rubber on the road.   This trip was like the others.  It took a while before they slowly engaged in any type … Continue reading →