Steve Murphy
Bio
He/Him. A writer & actor living in the Arizona desert. Born in Idaho, have also lived in California, Maui, & Seattle. Married to a creative art quilter and blessed with the companionship of an Airedale Terrier.
Stories (26/0)
I-90 Freezeout
VOCAL SNOW FICTION CHALLENGE 2.9.24 I-90 Freeze-Out Hands gripped tight on the wheel, head hunched forward, Sam searched the snowy landscape for a turnout. Some place to rest, a hiding spot. His back ached from seven hours of driving in the tense position.
By Steve Murphy2 months ago in Fiction
(Just Like) Starting Over
I wasn't working when the news came over the AP wire. I was home, fixing dinner for my son. Jeremy was two years, ten months by then. He likes to kid me these days about the baked tofu topped with brewer's yeast I fed him back then. What was I thinking?
By Steve Murphy7 months ago in Chapters
The End ... of the Beginning
"What a long, strange trip it's been," and it wouldn't have, couldn't have been the same without music. Memory is a tricky thing, and no doubt this chronicle of my musical journey is misremembered, sometimes embellished, and only a snapshot (4,269 words cannot cover sixty odd years of rock and roll) but still true in the larger sense. True to the music. After all, that's what really matters, staying true to the music.
By Steve Murphy11 months ago in Beat
Come Again?
Time and time again. Life after life after life. Reincarnation.
By Steve Murphyabout a year ago in Poets
