Moe cradled the receiver between his neck and jaw and glimpsed the folds of hanging skin visible in the mirror over the chest of drawers. The weight loss was helping with the way his clothes fit and he was losing the paunch. His face, though, looked more drawn and haggard. The phone rang again and […]
The day before yesterday’s date, July 2, 2025, will be a footnote in history if, God willing, we have a history. On this day, hip hop impresario Sean Diddy Combs skated on the most serious charges in his human trafficking and sex racketeering trial. Mr. Combs was swatted with a conviction of transporting a person […]
Fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fifty-nine… She had always thought her mother’s vanity was cherry. So when she passed, Lonna bought a stool for it. Naturally, she paid for solid cherry. Come to find out, the wood was a less expensive poplar painted with a cherry finish. Sixty-four, sixty–five, sixty-six… Then she had to find another poplar one […]
He downshifted and whipped into the oncoming traffic lane. Head to head with the Honda, he released the throttle and put pedal to medal. There would be no questioning if he got pulled over. Maybe a gentle scolding, but that would be that. He bisected the solid yellow line a good distance ahead of the […]
It was one of the weird things he thought about when he used to stay in high end hotels…had there ever been clothes in the dresser? …or chest of drawers as some called it. Like so many other things, it had to be quantified before he guessed. Was he staying in a standard room? If […]
He reached out the window of the Mercury Montego and hung up the pay phone. Big rain splotches darkened the sleeve of his Coastal Mist windbreaker, though he didn’t have to reach far. It was one of four payphones in town, all at Circle K’s, that you could roll right up to and not even […]
Many years ago I lived across the street from a teenage girl, her adolescent brother and their practically nonexistent mother–all of them rather unfortunate looking except for their magnificent red hair. For the life of me I can’t remember their names… Bobby. The boy’s name was Bobby… They lived in one of the many large […]
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