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Dale Scherfling

Dale Scherfling is a full-time writer and poet, a former newspaper sportswriter, and a retired U.S. Navy photojournalist. He teaches creative writing and photography at the college level, and his work has appeared in The Monterey Poetry Review, Aura Arts Review, Close to the Bone, San Diego Poetry Annual, and other journals.

Stories by Dale Scherfling

Noir · 12 min read

Battleship Gray

San Diego, 1974. A Navy photographer’s brutal act for his lieutenant leaves him hunted, and unsure who he really hit.

by Dale Scherfling

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