I'm a semi-pro spewer of sometimes interesting sounding gibberish. I write a lot of different stuff including poetry, haiku, haibun, flash fiction, short stories, and essays.
28 Apr 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Steve B Howard
Just In Case: a collection of short stories and Haibun Ebookhttps://books2read.com/u/3LG0l7 The Brother I Will Never Know He never had a name. At least not one you knew of before you left Viet Nam. When the story of your son came up the only names th...
28 Apr 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Steve B Howard
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17 Apr 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Steve B Howard
You drowse in the rhythm of theJR train’s click over the tracksopening your eyes briefly asthe train hushes into another station. This half-consciousness,more like forced meditationon an icy morning than real sleep;you draw out a long over due yawn a...
13 Apr 2019 6 minute read 0 comments Steve B Howard
Harold had labored in the same job, the same diesel grime and oil, for thirty-six years. Today he would retire. His world for the past thirty-six years had consisted of a four-way intersection and the three buildings attached to that intersection,...
7 Apr 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Steve B Howard
Near the stream’s edgein the dank reeds hecarefully observes theflying invertebrate. From his tin he selects a tanand brown Caddis patterntied in blond elk hairand deep brown rabbit fur. He crouches to avoid tossingshadows while making his back cast....
24 Mar 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Steve B Howard
Gifu, Japan: my balconycomfort, sultry rays, hintof rainy seasonbelow, two boys age 7 maybe stares, pointing, intense conversationsubject: mewords understood: gaijin (foreigner)oni (devil) ookii (huge)chin chin (derogative for penis) Okay, I’m a fore...
22 Mar 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Steve B Howard
“I’m sorry, but I’m not up for the sort of frantic psychic rebalancing your hallucinogenic ramblings would create tonight.” “Okay, I understand. I’m still going on though, you know performing. Even if I dissolve just a little of their reality it’ll b...
19 Mar 2019 16 minute read 0 comments Steve B Howard
I rolled out from under my newspapers and cardboard tent thinking maybe today I could paint the changes into my life that I’d been dreaming of for the past fifteen years. I saw it all in my mind, but that’s about as far as it went. Under a little ray...
17 Mar 2019 3 minute read 0 comments Steve B Howard
FREE GIVEAWAY FROM MARCH 18th to March 22nd!!!!!! Fly Fishing Out of a Dead End Life A small collection of short stories, flash fiction, and haibun. A young man escapes from a rough life through his passion for fly fishing. A man reflects on how fly...
12 Mar 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Steve B Howard
This river has at least three names, The White River (the most common name), the Black River (the old name), and the Stuck River (the most appropriate name considering where I’m fishing today). There are fish here, I can feel it. I’m fly fishing fo...
