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The Busiest Empty Space
Posted on July 31, 2022 Leave a Comment
It was sheer sensual blight. Up to this point, it was something literally unimaginable for Sam. There were blinking, spinning, and undulating lights, there were screens showing all manner of everything, there was music pouring from everywhere and everything. It was lousy with a frenetic vibe that would overdose even the most Zen humanoid. It […]
Finding Fidelity – The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
Posted on March 20, 2022 1 Comment
“Jezuz!” I exclaimed out loud to no one in deadpan alley. I remembered why I hadn’t eaten, and why I was so fucking hungry—blood draw day for the “corporate wellness program”. Apparently, one is at the pinnacle of health when one has not eaten for at least 12 hours (or longer). I posited that there […]
Finding Fidelity—Demolition man
Posted on September 3, 2021 Leave a Comment
Just as spring arrived none-too-soon, Brandon and I were putting the kitchen back together and restoring the powder room to functional status. Everyone was thankful for the simple luxury of no longer having to run upstairs (or outside) to pee or eat. By the time summer was patiently waiting backstage, we managed to wrap up […]
Finding Fidelity, the emails
Posted on July 18, 2021 Leave a Comment
As Drew simulated an earthquake causing some of the trains to derail and dangle over the edge of the stage, I mean cliff, I selected the first catastrophe in my inbox to tackle. This morning, it was scheduling a lunch with the sales dude from our main ECM software vendor. I always found these charades […]
Finding Fidelity
Posted on July 11, 2021 1 Comment
After five years of religiously working a well-worn thrift store circuit during my lunch hour, I had unearthed and polished thousands of black vinyl gems. But the crown jewel continued to allude me. Don McLean’s magnum opus American Pie was not among the thousands of LPs on my shelves. And while I’d snagged plenty of choice picks […]
All The Men Stayed
Posted on March 22, 2021 Leave a Comment
Advantage XX Everybody has a dream. Without question, a little girls dream involves a Prince Charming; her knight in shining armor. Fast forward, a moment if you will. There have been years of dating and dreaming and searching and finding. Finally the painstaking meeting occurs in which a young man asks a father for his daughters hand […]
Born and Raised – The Redux
Posted on November 23, 2020 1 Comment
Even in the bewildering epoch between childhood and womanhood, she knew her home was not home. Once a month, Sam found herself dragged along to her mother’s hair appointment. Parked in one of the bright green Naugahyde chairs arranged like fence posts bordering the rectangular reception area of the salon, Sam would sit and wait. […]
Lipstick Sunset – The Redux
Posted on July 19, 2020 Leave a Comment
If I lay here forever, this can’t end, she thought, in vain. If I never give up this room, it will be mine, forever. She pulled the covers over her face. If I stay here, who will miss me? But he’d have to stay with me… The thought scored her heart. She felt like she was bleeding […]
Another One Bites the Dust – The Tridux
Posted on May 26, 2020 Leave a Comment
The thought of starting her own business with Kendra was as exciting as the thought of going back to Eau Claire and never again seeing these impossible people was excruciating. The whole thing made her ache at some foundational level that encompassed the heart, mind, and soul, especially. She desperately wanted another drink, but she […]
The Eponymous Hippopotamus
Posted on May 9, 2020 Leave a Comment
CHAPTER ONE Africa is a continent in the southern hemisphere. Kenya is a country in Africa. The Masai Mara Reserve is a wildlife reserve in Kenya. Lake Nakuru is a soda lake in the Masai Mara Reserve. Wendell and Steve were in Lake Nakaru. Well, Wendell was. CHAPTER TWO Wendell was a hippopotamus. Steve was an oxpecker. Wendell […]
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