Jim Latham real life stories very short stories Friday, October 13, 2023 Where Serpents Shed Their Skins by Jim Latham <i>A jaded American language teacher flirts with a Mexican polyglot overlooking the fertile Aztec highlands, in Jim Latham's flash fiction.</i><br><br>If you ask me, there's too much English in the world already, but I'm not so principled I won't earn money teaching it while traveling indefinitely. <br><br>These days I live in Puebla, a central Mexican city of four million dominated by the automobile i… Read more Labels: Jim Latham real life stories very short stories 12 comments:
Jim Latham real life stories very short stories Monday, September 12, 2022 Ellie's Orange Roses by Jim Latham <i>Ellie returns to her Alutiiq roots and mourns her beloved Gram; by Jim Latham.</i><br><br>Ellie's orange roses rest in a cracked blue vase on the table by the kitchen window. The sun shines through the window, making the vase glow, and the sea breeze brings the scent of the roses across the room to where Ellie sits in Gram's rocker, sipping samovar tea and looking out to sea. She wanted to go pick <i>uu… Read more Labels: Jim Latham real life stories very short stories 14 comments:
Jim Latham real life stories very short stories Friday, August 5, 2022 Uncle Grand's Wheat Field by Jim Latham <i>Bryn finds an unusual object in her neighbour's wheat field; by Jim Latham.</i><br><br> Bryn was taking her first sip of coffee when she saw it. She blinked twice then snatched the binoculars she kept for birding to make sure: a four-poster bed, complete with red velvet curtains and elaborate molding had appeared in Old Man Kemmerer's field. Keeping out of other people's business was one thing, bu… Read more Labels: Jim Latham real life stories very short stories 10 comments:
