Articles & Short Stories

FLORIDA'S WILD CATS

Florida’s Wildcats One of the most astonishing things happened during on an early morning in November 1966. Each hour 150,000 meteors...

Remembering Mitch Follows a narrative in which the author is mooned by pretty young women, ponders the meaning of life, and remembers a...

Travels with Pete Most couples spend Valentine’s Day at a fancy restaurant. In 1998, my wife and I spent it walking through 60 yards of...

Pig Meat’s Blues There are so many of us, we are like grains of sand on the beach. I like to think that sometimes we are carried off on...

Living Proof It was a crime, no doubt about it. It was not pre-mediated, but spontaneous. It was regretted almost instantly and resulted...

FLAMINGO IN AUGUST (Or how brave adventurers faced the mosquitoes of August…) Sometimes nature adventures aren’t what you want them to...

AT THE EDGE OF OUR SEA Strolling by the Hillsborough River on a lovely spring morning in 2010, I noticed a smell reminiscent of lacquer...

OVER THE TOP By Tim Ohr For Bruce’s final day as my riding companion at Flatwoods Park, I had planned on something spectacular. A...

OBAMA GIRL AND THE CRASHES OF ‘08 By Tim Ohr At first I did not notice the woman’s body lying in the path ahead of me because of various...

Author's Note: This article appeared in Weekly Planet/Creative Loafing. THE NOTIFICATION When I left the US Army in 1975, I moved into a...