Month: October 2021

Montreal was every bit as lovely and lively as Kyle had been told, but no one mentioned how bloody cold it got in the winter! As he rushed from the taxi into the airport terminal, he longed for the heat of summer and thought fondly of his time in Santa Barbara. Well, most of it. He’d left some good friends […]

I was working on the film crew for Desert Winds 2 which was filming on location in Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada, in the sandstone region known as Little Finland. I was a gaffer by trade and my name has sped across the end credit roll of many films. If you watched any one of my films many to the […]

Priscilla Perez kept the ‘Ho’ smile on her face as she gathered up her clothes and her tips. She kept the smile on her face until she exited the stage. Then she allowed her face to relax. She hated working the early shift; nothing but old men. And the majority of these old buzzards were cheap. They expected to be […]

One cool mid-September day, I complained to a co-worker about being bored with the local lunch fare. We’d both worked there long enough to have explored everything nearby. It was the same few restaurants with the same, unchanging menus. I needed something new in my life. “Try the food court at the mall downtown,” he suggested. I started to object, […]

Elaine looked across the restaurant table at the man talking to her. His name was Jamie and he was in the process of explaining to her the reasons that his family had moved from London’s East End to Australia. Brisbane, Queensland to be more specific. She wasn’t really listening to the words, but was beginning to be captivated by his […]

“You have got to be fucking kidding me.” Shannon threw his headset down on the desk for a moment, let out an exasperated sigh, and then put them back on. “Goddammit.” It was a good thing everyone except the director was muted in the Skype meeting. The handful of other people in the office were swearing, too. “Effective close of […]

Marcyn worked at her tincture, grinding the herbs and salt into a powder and adding wine until it was a thick paste. She rubbed it between her fingers, feeling for any lingering grit and putting it under the weight of her pestle again. Isolde came beside her with a mortar and pestle in her own hands. She began to pluck […]

“And you normally just pop by, sort of a surprise inspection?” There was a smile on my face and I was trying to hide my exasperation. “If you had let us know that you were planning on coming by, we could have someone on hand to answer any questions and walk you through everything.” “Yes, ma’am, but we don’t really […]

Several years ago a close life-time friend from my schooldays who had gone into a nursing home asked me if I could clear the loft in his house. His wife still lived there but was not very well and he was worried that the house might have to be sold. They had moved into the house which belonged to his […]

This involves sex with a man and a married woman. If this bothers you…later. “Damn! I swear you have to be the luckiest man on earth,” Walter Collins sighed as he took a sip of beer. Greg looked over, “What are you talking about? I mean, I’m happy. I love my job, not just telling you that because you’re my […]