One of the advantages to leaving the office late is that you don't have to fight for space on the elevators going down to the parking garage. You also don't have to worry about your car being clipped by one of your coworkers' vehicles in the crush to all reach the exit ramp to the street first. You place your neatly-folded but rumpled suit on the back seat n...
The short fat guy was speaking fast as he guzzled his beer from his bottle. In my dream, William Burroughs was working as a hired hand on the farm I grew up on. I'd just got out of a situation working for evil, twisted rednecks where I could not figure out my responsibilities nor what my job was; yet if I didn't get it done I was gonna be in deep shit. Burro...
On our vacation with my wife Tia, I wrote the rules. Constant intoxication and no underwear. We took a late night flight. On the plane to Cancun, Mexico, Tia and I sat in first class. We ordered several glasses of champagne. The flight attendants were nice to us and eventually gave us our own bottle of bubbly. It was not that crowded in first class. There we...
I used to be a fairly wealthy man. I designed and sold improved parts for cars, my company was doing pretty well, too. Enough so that I bought a small ranch, a nice house with stream frontage that had been part of an estate. The old man that owned it had split it into two sections, several acres in each, giving one half to each of his two sons. I bought t...
I had fun writing this one. I love the idea for the plot, but think I might have rushed the writing. Nevertheless, here it is. Another absurd, over-the-top fantasy story. All characters are of age and utterly ridiculous. Have fun! ***** The woman seated across from me was older, perhaps 45 or so. She was tall and slender, thinner than me by a margin, but t...
Copyright 2004. All rights reserved. Rubies are Red. Part 39. Paul I lifted my head and through the window into the room in front of me. I could still hear my grandfather and Roddrego arguing over something but there voices were now lowered. I could see Louise's head on a level with mine and beyond her Bill sitting on a chair. My grandfather and Roddrego...
Kate We got up early. I headed to Mom's, and Ally went to her folks'. Amanda went on home; we would see her later at the wedding. Mom was in the kitchen, eating, and told me to sit down, as she had something to tell me. Hmm...I sat and had something to eat while she told me something that floored me! She told me that I was going to be made a Priestess and...
"Professor Webster, how did Socrates come up with a female character as strong as Antigone?" Except, she pronounced Anti-gone. I smiled benignly at my inquisitor. She was a Barbie doll, right down to the IQ. She was tall, lithe, blond, with blue eyes and breasts that were all-encompassing. It was hard to look her in the eyes. "Well, Christy, Antigone was wr...
Gosh this is one long night. After all the problems we have had tonight it is a geat relief to finally shut the doors. But I am still trying to fix problems. Here I am stuck at the store, trying to get these things finished so I can get out of here. The phone rings behind me and Adam answers it. 'Hey Mike' he says 'It's for you.' Then he walks away grinning,...
The next morning early Roger left his "home" and headed for the meadow for more deer. This time he killed two, field dressed them and drug them back to his camp for processing. One he hung over his fire to roast whole as he had done before. The other one he cut thin strips from and hung over another fire made mostly of hickory to smoke and preserve into jerk...