benjamin j kirby

It feels a little silly, a little trite, as the 2016 election winds down, to say that presidential campaigns are flat-out ridiculous. Certainly no previous presidential election has ever been any more ridiculous than this one.

Richard Ben Cramer’s ‘What It Takes’

October 21, 2016 0

I have a special way of working. No guns. Don’t like the goddam things, and I like the kin d of people who use ‘em even less. Noisy, messy. Easy to trace, too. I have a better way. Cleaner. Easier.

Manna of St. Nicholas of Bari

August 21, 2016 0

How do you lose a body on a plane this small?

The Extraordinary Rendition

August 10, 2016 1

On the porch. With a drink and an Ybor City cigar. You listen to me, now, you’ll be fine, just fine. Listen here. I know about him. He come from out west, California. Gonna make it. Big time. Could write.... Continue Reading →

Coyote

August 3, 2016 0

Boy

She won’t be around much longer, pal, Ren’s father had told him earnestly. His Aunt Joan was dying. Ren and his brother Bobby shared a room at the old hotel, his mother, father and little sister Elsie in the adjoining... Continue Reading →

August 2, 2016 0

Welcome

Welcome to my blog for writing. Here is where you will find an archive of short stories and essays I have written. Many of those stories were published at a blog I have since taken down called Clintonaut. Many of those... Continue Reading →