Tag: Death and the Dream

  • Good Neighbors

    A Christmas Story, excerpt from Death and the Dream. After Christmas my Aunt Muriel and I walk through the barren park on East Fifth Street in New York. It’s not much of a park. We have to stop every six feet or so beside one of the rotting wooden benches to let my Aunt Muriel…

  • Way to Heaven

    An excerpt from Death and the Dream by J.J.Brown, deliciously dark short stories for Halloween. It’s so unnaturally quiet inside the old wood shed. And dark. It’s so completely dark inside, even at midday, as if buried above ground. Spiders hang in front of webs so thick on the dirty windows that they form lace…

  • Birds, Lamb, Produce and Compassion

    A true story about a bird I loved, lamb and produce. Birds I am remembering a dear cockatiel named “Babe” sat on me or beside me on any available perch she could find, most evenings when I wrote or cooked. She had a habit of trying to remove my glasses and earrings when she landed on my…

  • Science and Conscience, Passion and Compassion

    As a writer, individual words are important tools in collecting thoughts into coherent stories. My first book, Death and the Dream, touches on science and conscience. “Con” with “science” adds the thought and the heart to it. What is the work of science without conscience? It’s a little frightening to say that I know what…