Three days. It sounds like a lot of time, doesn’t it? I suppose it can be, depending on what you need the time for. If you’re waiting for an event you’re excited about it, three days can seem like forever. If you need the time to prepare for the event though, it feels like there’s […]

“Fall in you maggots!” yelled the Sargent. Robert lined up with the rest of his squad. “All right! Bad asses the lot of you! Now lissen up! The Doc here has something to say. Doc?” Dr. Williams stepped forward, clearing her throat. “You men know we’ve been working on a cure here for the last […]

Marty stood staring at the heavily locked door that opened onto the basement stairs. He drew the keys from the front pocket of his jeans and they jingled together loudly as his hand shook. Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, he clenched his fists tightly at his sides and muttered to himself. “I […]

Carl sat with his back against the cold tile of the bathroom wall, looking down at the small bag of peanuts in his hand. It was the type of bag you get for free when you fly coach on most airlines. In point of fact that’s exactly where he got them, on that flight he […]

WHACK! The fist came out of the blackness and connected with my jaw, making me see stars and taste blood. I felt around with my tongue. Good, no loose choppers. Yet. “Listen up and listen good you dope: Mr. McClaren wants his property back, and he’s hired me to get it. So, you wanna do […]

It’s been a year now that she’s been gone. It certainly doesn’t feel like it. I’ll never forget that day, the day she left us. I was out getting my hair done at Raoul’s. Cindy was throwing one of her famous bashes that weekend and of course I just needed to look amazing. Raoul himself […]

The bell over the door tinkled as the old man entered the tattoo shop, announcing his presence. “Be right with ya!” came a shout from somewhere beyond the counter. The old man stood just inside the doorway gazing around from behind his thick glasses at all the art on the walls. With wide eyes he […]

As Bryce looked through his latest haul he still couldn’t believe his luck. The tip he had gotten from the guy that ran the pawn shop had paid off big time. He’d been skeptical at first since it seemed too good to be true. What kind of art collector had such a crappy security system? […]

I’m taking an online course in creative writing and our first assignment was to write a story using a phrase (from a list) as your first line and include a twist at the end. We had to keep our story to 300 words or less. I choose the phrase “Mary was “fed up” with Bob […]

Disclaimer: I was cleaning up some really old boxes of stuff and I came across this story that I wrote sometime during 1984 and thought it would be fun to share it. Whilst transcribing it from the stained, wrinkled and – sigh – dot matrix printed paper it was on I did do a tad […]