The flat rhythmic tick of the metronome echoed off the living room walls. Alex put his hand over the pendulum to silence it and listened for a second round of knocking at the front door. Most people used the bell, particularly when his piano playing could be heard from outside, but he was sure he'd heard a knock. He pressed the button on his mechanical watch...
What the hell are you doing here? Your mind chews on this question every minute when you are sitting in a muddy circle with other prisoners. You had joined the city militia to defend against an army of monster-women; fancy way to hit your 18th birthday. Taking up your sword and shield, your worried parents sniffled and hid their tears as you manned the c...
"Tupac, get the fuck out of here..." Dave threw a chewed up rubber ring out the bedroom door and Tupac, his 80lb Doberman/Shepherd mix, grudgingly chased it out of the room down the hall, shooting several jealous glances as he did so, until I shut the door: Tupac thought he was the number two in the house, but I've been taking up more and more of David's att...
"Calling all Goblins." It was a cheerful, deep-toned voice, and Laurie turned her attention away from the chore of trying to find the ripest melon on the stack in the produce bins to taking a straight shot look down the cereal aisle. There a good-looking young man was gathering in three racing young boys, ranging, it appeared, from the age of three up to fi...
Lisa sat laughing and drinking with her group of friends, they had come to a hot new club in downtown Chicago only a short distance from the high end gym where most of them worked... many as trainers. There was always some kind of new pickup place that was hot on Rush or somewhere close to the Gold Coast, basic meat markets. This one was huge with three sepa...
My work takes me to Washington where I see the sights. A firm in Washington DC had contracted my services and after a couple months of work I had yet to spend the weekend there despite the many attractions the city held for me. I had just broke up with my girlfriend about two months before my contract began, but I was still making the 4 hour drive back home...
THUMP!!! "What was that?" Deborah wondered and immediately stopped singing along with the radio. She watched as the RPMs dropped steadily on the dial. "Oh no," she thought. Deborah quickly put on her turn signal and drifted to the side of the road, making a note of the mile marker as she passed it. Mile marker 132. As the car came to a stop, she looked out...
She stood staring out the window, not really seeing anything at all but lost in her own thoughts, instead. The box she was unpacking was forgotten at her feet for the moment. Shoulders relaxing, she lets out a sigh and idly wonders if it was a sad one or one of content. At this point in her life, she's not sure of anything, even her own emotions. Three wee...
Lynn's family and ours have been best of friends for about twenty some years now, pretty much ever since out sons were born. Lynn bought a tanning salon a few years ago as a form of extra income, and her twenty four year old daughter Emily, frequently helps out with the place. Over the years Lynn and I have done many favors for each other, at one time joking...
Neither one would have guessed that they had so much in common! Both had been married for quite some time, better than 20 years each. Both were far younger looking than their middle age drivers' licenses revealed. Both were in the throes of the quiet, lonely sadness that follows the realization that the sparkle was gone from their respective relationships....