Charlie Foote’s Mayday By Benjamin J. Gohs When your last chance reaches across the latitude and longitude of impossible happenstance, and plucks your name from that old slouch hat, you don't ask, you don't argue—you just nod in solemn uncertainty and go. Go where? Do what? Voice on the telephone said it would be good … Continue reading Charlie Foote’s Mayday
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An Old Family Recipe
An Old Family Recipe By Benjamin J. Gohs “I have to do something before he kills me.” Smoke rose gently from mom’s mouth. She leaned in her chair and peeked out the curtain which cast a shard of sunshine into the darkness. “Maybe I'll just leave.” Brandon bit a hard-boiled egg in half and poured … Continue reading An Old Family Recipe
Whalebone
Whalebone By Benjamin J. Gohs Poet Peter Mann believed not in muses nor inspiration but trusted in the cruelty of all wretched scribes to pilfer that which was true and necessary from the unwitting. “Let them callous their hands and burden they hearts, dear mother. For I am an artiste! And God alone—choose which ye … Continue reading Whalebone
A short story entitled ‘Curly Parsly’
Curly Parsly By Benjamin J. Gohs SOMETIMES HE WHISPERED his own name for that was all he chose or perhaps all he could. Whether Curly Parsly understood the implications of that moniker, only the god of his terrible making could say. Now, I love the man. May sound odd to those who know I tried … Continue reading A short story entitled ‘Curly Parsly’
Setting the Table
Setting the Table By Benjamin J. Gohs Libby worked the blade into the dirty skin slowly and without thought. The mindless task soothed her. Thin metallic chirp as she whisked away the peels into a musty pile on a dank bed of yesterday’s news. Baptized the newborn spud in a bowl of rinse water, eyed … Continue reading Setting the Table
Benjamin J. Gohs, Screenwriter 