By Roberta Umor 1 September 2029: Yuma, AZ — Within an hour of learning she had been summarily released by the Yuma Bulldozers, former Acting GM Pam Postema called a press conference. She made a brief statement and then answered questions for more than an hour. Thank you for coming today. I apologize for the […]
Upon learning of David Goode’s dismissal and Billy Hawk’s promotion, Acting GM for the Yuma Bulldozers, Pam Postema, made a phone call to the spokesperson for the Yuma Consortium of Owners, Emma Span, resident of Brooklyn, NY. It went something like this, expletives deleted. Whadda you want, Postema? A word with you, Emma. One […]
Interview by Roberta Umor Well, since you asked, but I don’t usually talk about my patients, the Head Nurse frowns on it, but heh, she frowns on everything—and what a frown she has! Like shutting the sun out of a room, everyone suddenly gets dark. She’s bon vivant as hell in the nurse’s break room, […]
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was—” “Just shut up!” The room was suddenly quiet. A moment passed. Then another. Someone stirred, a baby cried in the apartment next door. Someone coughed. They coughed again. Then a cavalcade of coughing rent the silence. When it finished, a woman’s […]
It was neither the best of times, nor the worst of times, it certainly wasn’t an age of wisdom, nor was it an age of foolishness, it wasn’t an epoch of belief nor of incredulity, but it had been a season, oh yes, a long and often miserable season, hardly one of light, more a season […]
The rookie left hander Yashi Suto snapped the first curveball just off the corner of the plate for ball one. Danny Burke held onto the pitch a little longer than usual, then said to the man in blue behind him, “You couldn’t give that one to the rookie?” “Cuz he’s a rookie?” the ump snarled […]
When Manager David Goode took the slow walk out to the mound in the eighth inning of the final game of the season, he wasn’t thinking about his pitcher, who had performed brilliantly, nor about the rookie reliever warming in the bullpen, but about the lights he’d seen two nights before, at the end of […]
Here we go again. Those were the first words that ran through the mind of David Goode when he awoke on the morning of April 3. Here we go again. The second words that gathered in the gloaming of his not-quite-awake brain were … It’s like déjà vu all over again. He shook his head, ran […]
The wind pushes a tumbleweed across the cracking pavement of an empty street. A coyote howls in the distance as the sun snakes its sinuous way from behind the mountains up into the pinking sky. The lonesome whistle of the Sunset Limited, nearly four hours late, blows across the steel gray water of the Colorado […]
When the nurse got off the phone, the first thing she did was slide the cell phone deep into the pocket of her uniform, then she ran from the staff lockers, down the long hospital hallway, up the ramp and around a corner that led to the room marked “Therapy.” Unable to speak because she […]
