「ザキさん、こんなクソ寒い夜中になんの用ですか」 空気も凍るような寒さの夜、理由も告げずに俺を稽古場へ呼び出した小劇団の先輩、崎山に不満を隠さず声を掛けた。そこは、稽古場というより廃倉庫といったほうがしっくりくるボロ屋で、風が吹かないだけ外よりマシという状況だった。貧乏劇団ゆえ暖房器具など置いてすらない。 「おう、すまねぇな、森田。ちょっと見せたいもんがあってな」 「金貸してくれってのは無しですよ」 「そんなんじゃねぇよ。芝居の話だ、芝居の」 崎山はもう四十も半ば、芽の出ない役者だ。売れない理由は、今時となっては珍しい「飲む」「打つ」「買う」と三拍子を見事に揃えた素行の悪さが、業界中に知れ渡っているせいだった。どこぞの脚本家の奥さんに横恋慕して旦那に殺されかけただの、賭場で負けて裸で電車に乗って留置所に入れられ...
Traffic is always a mess on the way back home. It's one of the things that annoy Kelly even more, considering that she wanted to get home away from the world. Sitting in her car she looked around at all of the faces and pouted at having to stand still on highway 40. She starts getting fidgety because she had been feeling especially sexy in her outfit: a shor...
Sorry folks there's no sex or jokes in this story I looked at the paperwork yet again. Westway Developments, Armington. Armington! The last place in the world that I wanted to go back to. I had managed to stay clear of the place for over four years. But it had always been on the cards that I would pull a load there sooner or later. Still if things went to p...
This is a re-post of a 2007 story that has been re-edited. There is no sex in this sorry. *** I am a simple man. I drive a bulldozer for a living. It's a fair living and I have provided well for my wife, Marcie and two sons, Jason, 15 and Troy, 16. We have a modest home that is just about paid off and enough money in the bank to ensure that the boys can...
It was a warm, midsummer night. The kind of night where the air seems to have a presence to it. I steamy, warmth that envelops everything. Then it started to rain. The rain was coming down as hard as I had ever seen it come down. Fortunately, I was cozily settled down in my home holding my 6 month old son watching television while I fed him a bottle. My wif...
** Author Note.....Not much sex in this part, so don't be discouraged...simply background for what's coming in part 2. * * * * * A weather- beaten, frayed and spent shell of a young man, Gavin McGowen sat on the edge of a hill overlooking a spot along the river that was about to become national news. Lost, over an hour's drive away from his home, the hust...
It was 10:45 when the white Volvo turned onto her street. She stopped a few yards ahead of Murdoch when he stepped into the roadway and flagged her down. 'Murdoch. What's the matter? What are you doing here?' He opened the driver's door and slid in behind the wheel. The same bossy deprecating tone took over her voice as she backed away from him on the se...
Well, once again my servo was in the shop and I'd have to depend upon public transportation to go visit the museum that day. Those damn Japanese just don't build them like they used to, it seems these days if you don't buy Bulgarian or Iraqi you're just buying junk. I mean hell, my Nissa-Toyota has been in the shop six times this year. What I wouldn't have g...
The Chess Game Matthew was making his way back home from Walmart with a truck full of college dorm room furniture for his daughter. Tomorrow will be Stacy's first night in the dorms and Matthew wanted to be sure his only child had the necessities she needed and more. Being a single-parent and raising a daughter was tough but since the passing of his wife 1...
THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2007. Marie was keen to visit the B******** alone but I vetoed the idea, pointing out the dangers. I agreed to a scenario however in which we entered separately and I kept out of the way, intervening only if I thought a situation looked fraught. So it was that I sat at a table near the exit, a table commanding a good view of the bar, with...