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A comforting touch triggers a childhood memory and a request, as a man imagines his final goodbye.
A Strange Request in Every Day Fiction, June 7, 2024
Like most 15-year-olds, Tommy Muller has much to learn about love and death. On this beautiful Autumn night, he will learn about both.
An Indian Summer Night’s Kiss, in Quillkeeper Press’s Love-themed anthology, “Smitten,” February 12, 2023
The Perfect Friend was inspired by unforgettable nights as a boy in the 1970’s, spent watching classic (and not-so-classic) horror movies with my mother, the late poet/artist Carol Runyan Fuchs, on an enormous Magnavox TV in our very-70s, wood-paneled den. Carol left this Earth way too soon, at the age of 56, but managed, in the 25 years I had her with me, to instill in me a love of art and schlock. The Perfect Friend is dedicated to her.
The Perfect Friend, in Issue 7 of Press Pause Press, December 1, 2022.
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Early on the morning of his big move from Texas to Florida, Miles Paley decides, quite out of the blue, to kidnap his ex-wife’s dog, a flatulent 15-year-old cockapoo named Miss Snickerdoodle. He’s not sure why he has done this, but one thing he does know: His strange journey has just gotten stranger.
The Man With The Dog, in The Manifest-Station, June 3, 2022
Reading a letter from his prisoner pen pal, with whom he plays an ongoing chess game, Muller, a Jewish refugee and recent widower, reflects on kindness in a post-Hitlerian world.
Dr. Muller’s Next Move in the Historic Tales anthology, Feb 17, 2022
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Carl and Laurelyn, two young American expats in Spain, make one more trip together, despite Carl’s suspicion that they have reached the end of something.
In The Peat, in Teach Afar, March 1, 2021
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