benjamin j kirby

This story was one of ten selected by the readers and editors of Creative Loafing for their 2010 Fiction Contest. Like most everyone else in Florida, Twilight Janus Dawson had come to the Sunshine State for the conveniences but stayed for... Continue Reading →

Twilight & Brimstone

October 23, 2016 1

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 →