2 December 2002 | Vol. 2, No. 4
Mulligan Stew Recipes
Trains run late. They always run late. Do they even have a schedule?
D.L. and Holly had a LONG midnight wait in the eerie silent station where only dripping waterway off in the darkness was heard, echoing for miles. Then, faraway, there was a siren. Coming closer. Slowly, D.L. realized it wasn't overhead, but down in the tunnels. The bright red fire train screamed past. On the hook-and-ladder ensemble at the end, a harried driver nodded. The face was familiar. Then D.L. realized it was his old roommate, Earl Durham.
Later, as they departed from the station of their destination, D.L. glanced at the token booths and recognized the two gnarled faces, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Edgar Whitcomb Riley. Poetry obviously didn't pay anymore.
There are many kinds of subway scofflaws. There are also many kinds of literary scofflaws.
"Let's go to a movie," he suggested to his lovely.
About the author:
Publication of his novel, Ashram: Adventures on a Yoga Farm (an ebook from PulpBits.com), has Jnana feeling like a true boot-camp revolutionary engaged in a Dharma battle.
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Jnana Hodson at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 2, No. 4, where "Mulligan Stew Recipes" ran on December 2, 2002. List other work with these same labels: fiction, flash fiction.
