Spring Turned To Winter By Jim Parks Spring turned to winter, but not all at once. First, there was summer with its green and gold, the tour...

The Union of One Thousand Breaths By Jim Parks When the dude with Massachusetts plates on his Mercedes keeled over dead while screwing the b...

by Jim Parks As the season turns, she will hit the time when leaves fall. Next, winds blow frigid weather from the northeast after the Gulf ...

by Jim Parks It was such a startling thing to happen under the overcast winter skies of the rice fields and the levees. We little men came a...

by Jim Parks They three crouched around the coals of a fire built of an oaken pallet by the tracks. The couple fussed with a thick soda bott...

by Jim Parks In the Metropolitan that Tuesday morning, all was brilliant refracted sunlight from the prism edges of the mirrors and the dull...

by Jim Parks Department of Defense Announces Plans For A Military Coup The U.S. Armed Forces recently announced their plans for a military t...

by Jim Parks Larry Smith's life changed forever on a morning in March, 1970, as he sat reading the competition in the editorial offices ...

By Jim Parks It took me a minute or two before I realized that Harry wasn't trying to pretend he didn't know me. He knew me once he ...

by Jim Parks 100 words (reposted from December 17, 2008) Two tipoffs a kid wouldn't notice. We went to the cancer doctor. I was twelve. ...

by Jim Parks (reposted from December 2, 2008) Maria could not get her breath in the humidity and vaporous stink of Nuevo Laredo's Guerre...

For the Naked, Nameless, Homeless and Harmless, Morningstar Ranch Was Home By Jim Parks (reposted from December 1, 2008) Picture this. A cou...