Hours have passed – seems like forever. We were due back in Tech right after lunch – it’s now two o’clock. “Hey, you dicks, let me out of here.” Me spending Thursday afternoon smoking weed with a bunch of lunatics …
James, as the doctors and staff at St. Mark’s Regional Hospital in San Diego insisted on calling him, applied pancake make-up over the band-aid camouflaging the skin lesion on his chin. He was glad to be home, surrounded by his …
Mario and Luigi worked from five until ten, twice a day in a brand name hotel in San Diego. First, they worked from 5 a.m. until 10 a.m. making breakfast and then they worked secretly from 5 p.m. until 10 …
Every time Edward “Shiny Shoes” walked down the sidewalk in front of our houses, my cousin Deana who lived next door and I would hide in the bushes. I think Edward knew we were hiding from him, but he …
The Hospital
Where is he?
He’ll be here.
I haven’t seen him yet. Have you?
I don’t know what he looks like, Scott. I haven’t met him yet.
You see the others coming out, don’t you?
It’s not important, she …
It came up on the very first date they had together. What was the deal with mustache? Peter knew what Chelsea meant, what “the deal” in question within her question was. She did not want to know about the color …
We were kids who rode the bus together, friends, and I remember him telling me that his handicapped brother, Andrew, was going to pass away young. We were in the side yard on Crescent Avenue. I can picture the jacket …
Howard pushed his shopping cart down the wide, clean aisles of the Havelock’s oversized grocery store. The metal cage rattled in front of him, almost empty. It was only November, but, to the left and right, shelves had already started …
Hap Davis had always been a cowboy. His first memory was riding up front his dad in the saddle on the Whitehorse Ranch. Later he followed along on his own pony over in the Alvord Country, and he’d been riding …
Will squints over the top of the Sunday paper.
He just finished reading aloud a short piece about a recent ‘reveal all’ book in the UK. It was a collection of actual love letters, written by politicians, celebrities and theatre …