When I got out of school I became a stockbroker. But I have a rough side, having played middle linebacker for championship football teams in high school and college, and I was completely unsatisfied. So what did I do? I became a bounty hunter. And I got good at it real fast, and made a ton of money in just two years. But I think my early success got to my he...
It was Saturday at ten in the morning and I had just finished my laundry. I am George Harris, 33, tall a little chubby, single. I am a staff photographer for a university. The home I was living in was inherited from my Grandparents. My neighborhood was originally developed after WWII and the house is what is known as a teardown because the area is being rede...
The old house looked the same, a welcome monument to permanence after all the changes that had occurred during my year in Vietnam. I paid the cab driver, shouldered my barracks bag and walked up the driveway to the back door. The garage stood empty, which went along with my phone calls from the airport going unanswered. Who would have been home anyway. Mom a...
November was a terrible month for me. Sales were slow, money was sparse and my attitude gloomy. I was fidgety and I needed relaxation and companionship. I usually don’t like bars, but I decided to go down to the local restaurant for a drink. And who knows, I might get lucky. I went to the local El Torrito restaurant a few blocks away. It was your typical f...
At the tick of appointed clock, I drove my husband Karl's top-down British Racing Green Mazda Miata convertible right up to the Welcome Center at the hotel. Rex was waiting alongside a porter. Both approached my car: Rex beaming and porter lugging a two small wicker baskets and a blanket. Rex directed that the picnic be fitted behind the seats. He knew one l...
On a cold January morning, December woke up shivering. It was freezing in her apartment and she didn’t know why. She thought, “didn’t you turn the heater on before you went to bed last night?” Not being able to remember, she got out of bed to go check. Looking at the thermostat, it showed it was set at 76 degrees. She was right; she had turned it on. Still c...
Previously on My Cup of Tea: Lisa and Sara's friendship is officially over. Jenna wakes up with Kyle on the floor by her bed. Ian's memories of his sister Mina bring pain to his heart. Gina has a secret... ------------------------------------------------- Kyle, bent over, hissed as he suffered from the kind of pain only males felt and feared. "Why'd you ki...
I stared at the table, blankly. I glared at the empty shot glass that had contained vodka. "What did I do to deserve this, huh?" The shot glass did not answer. I withdrew into my mind. A year ago, things had been perfect. My wife and I were gainfully employed. We loved each other dearly. Our friends said we were the perfect couple. We owned a small house...
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...
"Where are we, C'lin?" Sim'n asked as their space shuttle docked into the bay of a planet. "Marock. There is a stunning club here. I am going to give you the best birthday of your life!" "I'd rather have this shuttle. I can't believe your parents let you have this." Sim'n and C'lin were from the planet Offworld. Offworld had been populated when humans had...