Mariners Village

Genre Cover by Rex Wilder

Why is this piece your Trace Fossil?

"This piece began as bearing witness to a student body of badly behaved egrets on a pier along the Mariners Village in Marina Del Rey, California scrapping for a fish. It’s impossible to make sense of the emotional action flashing before one’s eyes at such a time so I just stuck my camera in the middle of the melee. The next day the artistic whittling down began, and I worked on the piece until it had the feel of permanence to it — in my heart, I mean."

A Chance Encounter Under A Rosewood Tree

“There are episodes of Boy’s Park Archie cannot get out of his head."

E. P. Tuazon

Excerpts from In the Old House

"He adjusted the bag on his back, looked toward the oncoming traffic and raised his arm, thumb pointing out toward the whitewashed sky."

Jack Lindsay

Prose Pieces

Drowned Barbies

“He tells me that we’ve gotta have a trial and a funeral, ‘cause a mouse drowned in the creek outside of his house where the floods made it overflow.”

Jo Underwood