Month: August 2021

Back when we were in our late twenties, my wife Deb and I loved to go out and meet up with friends at local clubs with live music. We all drank way too much and usually had to either catch a ride home or risk getting busted for DUI.

Here we go again. As if I wasn’t busy enough, now I must waste time taking yet another vendor meeting. Vendors are always trying to see me the next big thing. They always seem to have “the better product, service and prices.” But I’m old school and a loyalist. If I’m getting a fair price and great service, I don’t […]

About a year ago me and some buddies were out shooting pool and having a few beers. That is when I first met Dean. Dean and I quickly became friends. He has a quick, acerbic humor that never fails to crack me up. I have always been extremely sarcastic and the two of us together always seem to have a […]

His phone buzzed with a new Uber pickup. He looked at it, grabbed his keys and headed out the door. He liked meeting new people and mostly enjoyed providing a valuable service. A good 99% of his customers were pleasant and liked conversing during the ride. This particular pickup was a single mom and her teenage daughter. He pulled up, […]

“I’m Kat Freely of KBRK Houston. Tune in tomorrow morning for the latest on two new major road construction projects. And I’ll always keep you up to date with road conditions on the early shift at 6 a.m.” At 33, there already was a hint of crow’s feet at the corner of her eyes, thanks to years of the required, […]

He eyed her up and down, at once intrigued and touched with suspicion. She was a gorgeous woman after all, poised in his arms as the music and their dance ended- more curvy and voluptuous than he’d ever imagined a real woman could ever be. Her tight, sleeveless black dress perfectly hugged her hips and midriff, though truth be told […]

Nathan Manning was distraught. Carmen, his beautiful and beloved young wife, had slipped in the bathtub, struck her head and drowned, and he and everybody in her large family already missed her terribly. In addition to the loss of his bride of only a few months, he was going to need to spend a lot of money for her memorial […]

It was sundown. The carriage reached the cottage on the cliffs. Porphyria followed the path to the door, but hesitated before knocking. Maybe I should go back, she thought. Maybe I should just throw myself off the cliffs instead. That would be better. But she knocked, and when the door opened she went in without waiting to be invited or […]

“Oh look!” Roz said as she checked her email. “I’m a finalist in this year’s Halloween contest! I can’t wait to tell the rest of the club during tonight’s video chat; they’ll be so happy for me. All of their extra votes really helped!”

On her fortieth birthday getaway he left the passports and tickets on the kitchen counter and they said nothing to each other for four hours on the drive home, screamed at each other spitting blame and excuses and then fucked across the same kitchen counter an hour after midnight.