D.K. SHEPARD

Realistic Fiction

Carefully she slipped a small print collection of her own paintings into her portfolio bag. Each one featuring a face that had caused the world to stop for a minute...

Identity Poem

Kick off your shoes, race across the damp sand

Wade in past your toes, ankles, knees, and hips

Joints may be stiff, but for the child inside

Jumping waves is still muscle memory

Historical Fiction

The Choctaw boys told a story of a man with no name, “the Nameless Choctaw”, who could not win himself a war name. But for George and other boys at school they seemed to have too many names. They put them on and took them off like a pair of shoes...