You get a job. You become the job.- Peter Boyle as Wizard in Taxi Driver, 1976 It was the spring of 1979, I was twenty-three-years old, and I was driving a New York taxi on the night shift. Actually I had left the garage in Queens around three PM and it was still full daylight. I was cruising down the middle of Ninth Avenue, I think, looking for a fare. At...
Everyone in the world has their own personal brand of heroin. No matter who you are, what you believe, or how you think, you do. Now most people it isn't even an actual drug, just a craving, and an addiction they can't get rid of. And yes even I have a brand of heroin, for me it's a guy I've known for years. I know what you're thinking. But wait until you se...
I probably wouldn't have been as annoyed by the sound of the doorbell if I hadn't just gotten the football game on and sat down with a beer. With my wife and three daughters out shopping for homecoming dresses I had the rare opportunity to spend my Saturday watching any and every college game without interruption. Such an occasion deserved (at least in my mi...
Pt. VIII: The Scoop Kim Wright appeared next on Jack's short list of appointments to make. He called the private number Sam Hanson wrote on the back of her business card. Jack knew it was an old card because Sam had told him Kim was no longer an investigative reporter with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the largest paper in Nevada. The two agreed to meet fo...
The Angel of Death sped on midnight wings as the dying rays of the setting sun disappeared upon the horizon behind her. Catching an updraft she was lifted effortlessly high above the city, giving her a better vantage point to locate her prey. The rooftops of the sprawling desert city were all beginning to look the same, but no matter, the man she was after w...
I answered an ad on offer up to buy a laptop. I never expected anything like this. It was three days after Christmas. I was answering an ad in offer up for a laptop. Saw one that was for sale close by my house, so I made arrangements to see it and hopefully but it. As I made my way to the meeting place I saw a young blonde girl walking with a backpack and wa...
Jara holds little interest to the rest of the kingdom it's within and outside of maps held by the nobility no mention of it ever reaches past the borders. This is where you grew up, thatch roofs and rough stone walls are a sign of wealth here, most people live in roughly woven tents pitched against the cliff walls that hide your childhood home. Traditional a...
Luka woke up again after we had passed Camarthen and it was dark so she had no idea where we were when she sat up and looked out of the car. She looked at me with a slightly surprised look. "We have been travelling for a long time. I did not think that Britain was so big." "Well normally it's not but we've moved onto the bit of the map that says 'Here be D...
Dear John, Could you really have no idea how incredibly sexy you are? Every cell screams "sensual" and makes my heart thunder and skin tingle. Just a touch and I start getting butterflies in my stomach and that little flutter deep inside. Your casual greeting makes my nipples hard and my mind starts to fantasize about all the things I could do to you... and...
Part One: Backing Chad was coming down the sidewalk in his neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. He witnessed a guy backing his car into another person's car quarter panel doing substantial damage. When the guy looked out of his car window to see if anyone had noticed, he saw Chad glaring at him. The guy, Darrel, got out of his car, trying to think of a way out o...