Aladdin's Genie Paul Hawkins He came to my yard sale and paid for an old toaster with $5 worth of nickels. I was asking $7 for it, but...

I worked at the old Sears on 23rd and Penn in Oklahoma City during the early-mid 80’s. Rumor had it the top floor was a bordello for...

In The Great Gatsby, mobster Meyer Wolfsheim wore cufflinks made from human molars. Just to paint the setting. I now realize that when I...

I was a kid at St Francis, that downtown parish founded in the early 20th century originally a mission church to the whole Indian...

Copyright 2022, Paul Hawkins * I won't tell my secrets. No landscape painter who's ever had a show on PBS ever tells all his secrets –...

Lloyd Jenkins found the gateway to the underworld easily enough. It was right there, in the side of a mesa, in the Arizona desert....

"Come on, Ben, it'll only take 15 minutes." "Yes, but fifteen minutes is still a quarter of an hour, my good man, and an industrious man...

The Love Poem on a Grain of Rice Copyright 2012, Paul Hawkins Thirteen years ago when they were young and in love and could hardly afford...

Phil Lamont spent his afterlife being the attorney for the damned. Each and every damned person got maybe ten minutes in court to plead...

Paul Hawkins And so they climbed the seventh mountain; and six mountains they climbed first, and each was more arduous than the last, and...

A disillusioned young man, graduated with no hope for the future and with mountains of student loan debt, resigns himself to the life of...