Month: August 2021

For those of you just joining us, Rose is my father’s second wife (my stepmother) and my halfsister’s mother (Laila) with my father. Rose and I shared the same mother, and she died from cancer when I was young. After Laila tricked me into having sex with her, she and I were secret incestuous lovers for a few weeks until […]

“Hurry the fuck up, Jordan!” my wife yelled from the bottom of the stairs across the house. “I’m pushing as best as I can, Melissa!” I yelled back from my porcelain throne. This was the third time I’d been in the bathroom in the last two hours; my body kept reminding me of how nervous I was in the form […]

Neha had found a reasonable music station on the old car’s radio and was singing loudly to herself. She was feeling pretty good, just a bit sore in places. Steve, the large Samoan guy she had met yesterday, had given her a good workout. They’d jumped into his old Volkswagen van and headed to a spot overlooking the sea where […]

Everything, it seemed, happened to me in the summer. Bad things and good things. Sometimes I was glad when fall came along, signaling summer had finally left us for good. And sometimes I wanted the summer to go on forever…

It was definitely time for this vacation. I hadn’t taken one in almost four years. I spent most of that time driving from one wind turbine farm to another, each day climbing the nearly five hundred foot tall towers to repair and service the electronics and generators on top of the hollow towers. It was terrific money, and I was […]

I grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania, where most of the nine hundred or so people, who lived there, often didn’t lock their doors. Being part of the baby boomer generation, meant that a lot of those residents, were my age, or a few years older or younger, give or take. A lot of our parents were veterans […]

Every day I would pass those hand-lettered bright yellow signs evenly marching down the side of the road and every day I turned down the dusty road to get to Aunt Birdie’s house before I got to the actual goods. The door creaked on the rusty unused hinges and the dust danced across the sunbeams coming in through the windows.

I’ll admit I noticed the Mustang before the girl driving it. Poppy red 1965 Mustang convertible. I know this because it was the year I was born and it is a car I coveted all my life. The girl quickly grabbed my attention. She stood behind her open door and seemed to study the office, then she looked up at […]

The sunsets looking west across Lake Michigan can be absolutely amazing. It’s one of the few places in the U.S., save for the west coast, where the sun sets down behind the flat horizon of a large body of water under an expansive sky. For the 65 years that I have been coming to this family cottage, originally purchased by […]

I leaned on the counter in the window of my food truck. I didn’t have to look down to know I’d busted through my plaid western shirt. The plight of a thirty-six D in a medium-size world. If it fit my waist, it was tight on my bust and vice versa. A head popped around the corner of my window. […]