A trip down memory lane for me, that's all -- nothin' more, nothin' less. Enjoy another peek into what makes me -- me. ~ Red * I lost the thrill of Halloween at an early age. I think I was seven years old when it became a nightmare of a holiday for me. I remember where I was at when it was no longer fun, but scary. My two older sisters and I had been going...
"Any other ideas," Edi asked again. Clara, the host of tomorrow's Halloween party, had come up with the theme 'out of context'. Edi was trying to get some suggestions from her since it was her crazy theme. She usually created her own costumes that got rave reviews but, it'd been a shit show of a year, and she had nothing yet. "Nightmare Before Christmas is...
Call me Ismale. Delores's off-off Broadway play "A Rose" had not fared well; tonight's performance, the sixth, would be its farewell. Before we rested on the seventh day, our young cast cast caution windward and costumes skinward. Our actors' bodies, fined-tuned though faux-tanned, are our instruments, and we wished to unwind all stops. Delores's lackluster...
He was sitting in the big low armchair when I came in. I threw my bag on the couch and went to the kitchen, returning with a couple of bottles of beer. I took a long sip and put the bottles on the table next to his chair, and I sat down on his lap, my legs dangling over the chair arm. He put his arms around me and we exchanged a lengthy kiss. "How was your...
The first party since my divorce. Of course it had to be a costume party. Most of the people there would not know me no matter who I came as. Except that new assistant that had joined our company about six months ago. She was the first female I had even wanted to talk to since I had become a single man again. The other people I worked with would usually just...
The Snow Queen was angry. Very angry. Livid. She was not used to being betrayed. Even worse was the fact that her two most trusted servants were at the heart of it. Something would have to be done with sweet Meadow Nymph and proud Wood Witch. Something serious. A year ago, both had begged Snow Queen for equestrian lessons. They cited personal development as...
TWO WIZARDS The place was a whirling cacophonous jostle of laughing, shouting, some impatiently crying, children - each one hell-bent on obtaining their choice, that is until they saw some other child's undoubtedly even better one. It was my first taste of the pre-Halloween hell of hiring a child's costume - but then in the year since the divorce I had had...
Svenn and Audrey continued to hit it off after their first day of law school. They sat together in each of their classes, and typically did things together around school. They met a lot of other people in their section, too, but it was natural for them to spend time together -- they had a lot in common, and unlike most of the other students, they were both m...
Chapter 8: Graduation ===================== We parted ways with Nadia, and went back inside the restaurant. Because we came in late, our regular table was taken, and the nine of us, Barbara, Darin, Tracy, Oliver, Amanda, Bob, Rachel, Kate and myself, squeezed around a smaller table, the only one that was available. As we started to eat, we saw Kathy, the...
************************************************* Copyright Oggbashan March 2018 The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. This is a work of fiction. The events described here are imaginary; the settings and characters are fictitious and are not intended to represent specific places or living persons. **************...