Articles by Mitchell Waldman

Novella

Mitchell Waldman's fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in numerous publications. He is also the author of the novel, A FACE IN THE MOON, was co-editor with Diana May-Waldman of WOUNDS OF WAR: POETS FOR PEACE, and is Fiction Editor for Blue Lake Review.

The strange bum with the guitar turns Natalie's world inside out with one simple sentence ...

Conclusion. He'd been one of the "Dukes," long ago in what seemed like a different life. He knew he never would be one again, but there is a second chance to be something else ...

Short

Suddenly he's got it made ... and has the chance to crawl out of the grave he's dug for himself all those drunken years ...

The sun rises, and morning speeds by, full of discovery, deeds, and plans. But as the day wanes, light dims, and the minutes go by so slowly that nightfall seems to have lost its way...

Losing a friend is heart-breaking. Consolation only comes when you can accept the new horizon that friend must surely see ...

Is there any ideology, any border, any conflict worth the price of your child?

Listen carefully...and quietly...

What was hidden is found...

One moment, one look, and the context of life changes...

Poem

"Wayward nowhere to go ragged men with fertilized grizzled faces, bulbous noses, one eye hollow, the other attacking ..."

"It doesn't seem like too much to think about you, once (or twice) in my life ..."

'...your eyes eager and bright
like a newly discovered star
on a distant ancient night...'