Category Archives: Fiction

A Significant Place

I stand beside a grav­elly, sand packed road. I kneel down and touch the ground with my hand. The sun threat­ens to pound me into the ground, its blaz­ing rays like pieces of glass against my face. Breath­ing is dif­fi­cult here and the heat is chok­ing in its inten­sity. Yet small brown skinned chil­dren play …

June 18, 2012 – 8:05 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Fiction | Tagged | Comments (1)

Girl On A Postcard

A girl, pos­si­bly 15 or 18 or 21, it is hard to tell because her face is cov­ered in thick, dark grease­paint, stands in the right track of a two track dirt road that runs off into the dis­tance. She wears olive green pants and a dark brown flan­nel shirt, untucked. Her hair is brown, …

January 10, 2012 – 6:37 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Fiction | Tagged | Comments (2)

Trying

Do you remem­ber the time we tried to save that lit­tle kit­ten we found in the alley? It was behind the dump­ster, mewl­ing softly. You looked for its mother, up and down the street while I took it back to my house. I folded down the edges of a card­board box and lined the bot­tom …

August 9, 2011 – 11:36 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Fiction | Comments (1)

Pedro

EDITORIAL NOTE: As noted here, I’m tak­ing a Fic­tion Writ­ing class. I plan to post com­pleted and semi-completed works on my blog. This post and any sub­se­quent posts filed in the “Fic­tion” cat­e­gory are exactly that and should be read as such. END EDITORIAL NOTE “How are you?” I was pay­ing atten­tion to my hand-washing, mak­ing …

July 7, 2009 – 6:37 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Fiction | Comments (1)