I did sales for many years but the owner sold the brokerage and moved on to playing with his grandchildren. I basically one morning was standing on the street corner deciding what to do. I became a security officer in a 4-star hotel resort. It kept me on my feet where before I sat at a desk. I got back into shape pretty quick. It can be really boring someti...
"It would never happen in a million years," Nancy said as she carefully wrapped her apple core inside the plastic wrap from her vanished sandwich. "I mean I'd like to see her better off too—she's a sweet old gal—but Jim Norton signing off on that? Not a chance." "Well, he's coming this way now; shall we just test it out?" Cliff Clayton retrieved his can of...
Ah, ha!—Come, some music! Come, the recorders!—Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2 * I used to work around the corner from that church, and I remembered the day the fire tore through the building. There was a lot of snow. It was in December, about ten days before Christmas. The fire trucks had a tough time getting through. It took years to rebuild the church, and by...
Tobias had been waiting at the bar for nearly two hours. Stood up again, he thought. He'd stopped looking for Beth, the brunette he was supposed to meet tonight, and paid more attention to his glass. When the bartender gave him that, "ready for another?" look Tobias just nodded and a fresh glass of draught appeared on the bar. He slid a bill across the bar t...
You arrive at work. The wind is too strong for your umbrella and your hair gets wet, whipping about in strands. You wish you had a longer coat or a shorter walk from the car. Your first stop is the department office, where you say hello to the administrators, take some candy from the jar on the front desk, and check your mail. In your mailbox there is a co...
Tom always thought of himself as quite a ladies man. He was smoothie, good looking and always with a good looking woman on his arm. A different woman every night was quite normal for him and he was envied by every man and desired by every woman. How he ever kept it straight Lord only knew, but it must have been quite the mental challenge. It was his underest...
Life truly isn't fair. It tears away at you, just a little piece at a time, until finally you can no longer stand your own reflection in the mirror. The only good thing happening to me right this moment is that he's back from his lunch break. It is entirely possible that I could stand in this spot all day, right here, in front of the copy machine, and just...
When the universe sends you the person of your dreams, there's nothing you can do but hold on for the ride of a lifetime. There's no way to plan for it, there's no way to calculate how things should progress; you just have to be present in each moment to receive the gifts you deserve. Little did Marcus and Karen understand how perfectly suited they were for...
It was my birthday, and the banquet was ready. Man it's good to be a king. The ceremony was to be carried as usual: I would be seated on my throne and my guests would be on each side of the castle's hall as the ladies to entertain me would come to me one after another through the hall, walking on the red carpet. The first trumpet announced Miss Orange, the...
Position. That was the problem. He was sitting in the cheap apartment he'd rented to save money while he was getting his credit equivalencies, after getting back. He was frustrated and pissed off. The school work bored the shit out of him and he hated the professors at the community college. They were a pack of soft, pudgy, pasty, smirking, condescending ci...