Author: Collector

My friends call me E.T. but my real name is Eric Theodore Jr. A six-foot-two, lean and ruggedly handsome young Black man living in the city of Ottawa, Ontario. I was born in the city of Cap-Haitien, Republic of Haiti, but raised in Boston, Massachusetts. Later, I moved to Canada. Recently, I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Criminology from […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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?” 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 […]

My phone was ringing as I stepped out of the shower, I could see it was my daughter Sam, calling me. “Hey darling, howzit?” I asked. “Hello dad, I’m all good thanks. What you doing?” she replied. “Just got out of the shower young lady.” “Oh nice, you know I love to see you naked!”