Noel T. Cumberland
Bio
Noel T. Cumberland is always looking for the bizarre twist in everything he writes. He is published on the Scarlet Leaf Review, and Flash Fiction Magazine. He lives in Tucson with his wife, two sons, a cat, and the occasional loaner dog.
Stories (16/0)
- Top Story - January 2024
Page Thirty-SevenTop Story - January 2024
Page Thirty-Seven I approached the building slower than usual, concentrating on the echo of my shoes. Footsteps bouncing off the walls, then getting sucked into the alley like a baby finishing off its first bottle of the day. Looking up at the door, I felt a familiar tightness; a brief but serious consideration of what I’d do if I wet myself.
By Noel T. Cumberland4 months ago in Criminal
Thanks, Phil
In 1986, when I was fourteen years old, my folks told me and my brothers that we were moving. I had just started ninth grade at Johnson Junior High School and had been looking forward to being the “upperclassman”. I was going to be in the Junior ROTC class, I was going to take up the saxophone. I even had a friend, who was a GIRL, and who seemed to kind of tolerate me, which was an unusual state of affairs up to that point. The news that we were moving over a THOUSAND miles away was devastating.
By Noel T. Cumberland11 months ago in Beat
- Runner-Up in Ludicrous Limerick Challenge
The Replacement Genie
I washed up on the shore in mid-afternoon. I was hot, soaked to the skin, and utterly intolerant of this pissant little island. I was even less tolerant of the sea-serpent I’d hired to get me here in the first place. Foul things, sea-serpents. My broken wing throbbed under the dripping bandage holding it together and all I could think of was kicking Orem’s butt next time I saw him.
By Noel T. Cumberlandabout a year ago in Fiction
Supreme
stand up amongst flame millennia deny gale but to river bow
By Noel T. Cumberlandabout a year ago in Poets
