A Beautiful Night

What is the meaning of life, anyway? You can go down roads that bring happiness for a while but ultimately everything loses excitement again. So what brings lasting contentment? I can really only advise my own sex on that. Lasting happiness can only come from two sources: God or girls. Since I’ve never really known the former, I’ve always relied […]

A Beautiful Secret

Charity stood looking at herself in the mirror of the ladies restroom on the second floor of the Indianapolis airport. She turned her head from side to side, watching her face tilt back and forth in the mirror. She leaned closer, peering at herself with deep scrutiny. After a few moments of studying herself and a few quick flicks of […]

A Band of Brigands

Jimmy Roberts stood in a line fifteen people deep to punch his timecard in a steamy hellhole known to the locals, and everyone else for that matter, as Katz Industries. He hated his job, but was grateful for it. Here lately there had been a hell of a lot of people that had been laid off, including one of his […]

A Bad Day All Around

At five fifty in the morning Joshua Aton should have well been on his way to work. But standing in front of the ancient, gas furnace mounted on the wall of his second floor apartment, he sipped at his coffee, staring unenthused out of his window at the still-dark, and as of yet, undisturbed scene below. While he would miss […]

“Be Back by Dusk”

You’d always been a night owl. Which was a fairly odd habit to have in a house full of early risers. You’d be warming up your cup of milk to drink before you finally attempted to rest, just as your mother was rising to make her first cup of coffee for the day. While your parents had never tried to […]

“Blank Paper”

The European Continent had plunged into another war. Just days after British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, came home in triumph from Germany with a signed treaty and spoke his famous “I believe it is peace for our time.” It was a worthless promise from Adolf Hitler. It was a war that had already begun to spread towards Greece and Turkey […]

“Will You Be My Valetine Day Date?”

Memories from the past, this is a true recount of a man who tries to pick up a woman at McDonald’s as his sexy Valentine’s Day date. After losing everything in a flood, there was a time when Susan Jill Parker was homeless, sleeping at a shelter, and eating at a mission. Not proud of it, but better than living […]

‘Dad Are You My Father?’

“Dad, are you my father?” The old man found the question so amusing that he giggled with his whole body. This induced a spell of coughing and when he recovered he turned, and with eyes twinkling with happiness, looked straight into the eyes of his daughter. “Rather late in the day isn’t to ask that question?” “Yes, Dad, but better […]

The Blue Gown

Margaret had spent the last few nights putting the final details on the dress. It was an elegant, floor-length, medieval gown with bare shoulders. She tried it on, looking at herself in the mirror. She looked like a Fairy Tale Princess! No, better than that–she looked like a Fairy Queen! No, even better that–she looked simply gorgeous. She felt gorgeous […]

I was Only Trying to Help

I had a long career in import/export. I traveled literally around the world on Pan Am flights 1, which circumnavigated the globe going East, and flight 2, which went around going West. Before all these useless membership points, one could become a valued flier with a major airline. I found that when purchasing a first-class ticket on either PA#1 or […]