Note: Yet another snippet from my work-in-progress for NaNoWriMo (click here to read this story from the beginning), picking up right after I have realized that I made a stupendous automotive error at the end of my midnight shift in a convenience store… So, there I am, […]
Note: Yet another snippet from my work-in-progress for NaNoWriMo (click here to read this story from the beginning), picking up right after the lovely Justine, Police Officer Extraordinaire and Coffee Buddy at the convenience store where I worked, had just queried “You gonna shove your stick in the […]
Note: Yet another snippet from my work-in-progress for NaNoWriMo (click here to read this story from the beginning), picking up right after an underage asshat was annoyed with my refusal to sell him beer at the convenience store where I worked many centuries ago, and he returned a […]
Note: Another snippet from my work-in-progress for NaNoWriMo (click here to read this story from the beginning), picking up a bit later than the tale in the preceding post, wherein I am describing my lovely and life-inspiring work environment in that Quik Trip store, circa 1986… Directly […]
Note: This is a snippet from my current work-in-progress for NaNoWriMo. (If you don’t know what that is, just assume that it’s a writing project of some kind that means nothing to you but you might get a good read out of it anyway.) Enjoy. 1986, just […]
Editor’s Note: As a companion piece to my recent paean to the mood swings of a Chinese Buffet experience, here is an older ode exemplifying the writer’s obsessive thoughts concerning a new breakfast option at a local cafeteria-style chain… 1. The fact that Luby’s even serves breakfast. They […]
In the 70’s, my mom and stepdad were best friends with a couple that somehow managed to get ownership of this big chunk of land east of Broken Arrow, OK. I know those folks didn’t have a lot of money, so how they pulled it off was a […]
And so it was, this past Saturday evening, that a situation developed. My partner had plans to depart our domicile to meet up with a certain circle of friends that he has. Someone in said group was having a milestone birthday or had just given birth or had […]
This is the moment when we were still happy. We were in Malaga, Spain, at the Alcazaba, which is essentially a fortified palace built in the eleventh century, and then modified for several successive centuries. (Because that’s what people did back then. Somebody would build a building, then […]
Perhaps I should clarify. Some of us go mad when it comes to a certain writing challenge that annually takes place during this month. (Not to slight other folks who go mad for other reasons which may or may not be any of our business, depending on the […]
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