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
A Garden Variety Love
A Garden Variety Love By Benjamin J. Gohs Milt the younger was right but the old man scoffed, and threw his book, scattering everything on the bedside table to the floor. They stared: same steely eyes, long ginger foreheads, same trembling indignant jowls. Opposite walls, for a long while, they looked upon with angry breathing … Continue reading A Garden Variety Love
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
Such Healthy Brutes
Such Healthy Brutes By Benjamin J. Gohs THURSDAY “This town, how can I put this? This town gives my soul the shits … borough, burg, and ville.” Though the bells were silent and gates standing, Dixon Croinbleau sat parked north side the railroad tracks. Looked out over brown stumps of cornstalk jutting from black furrows, … Continue reading Such Healthy Brutes
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
Benjamin J. Gohs, Screenwriter 