Very Good Hair for These Braids
Sitting on the bus behind this girl with two beautiful braids, which I couldn't help but photograph, my virtue was unable to overcome the evil…
The Tiger, Part 1
I. I stared at the little man in the Brooks Brothers suit that was just a tad too long in the sleeves despite the extra padding in the shoulders,…
The Royal Fingers
I did not receive an invitation to the royal wedding of Prince George and Hannah MacReady. Instead, I received a non-disclosure agreement, from an…
The Accursed Armor of Sir Geoffrey Breton
Just as man was “fearfully and wonderfully made” by the hands of its creator, so was the accursed armor of Sir Geoffrey Breton. McNash had worked on…
My Better Half
It all started about nine years ago. I was shacking up with this girl who was what they call a “modern dancer.” We lasted a little under a year…
Shack Rat, Part 2
He was bent over in the living room, naked, the blood dry on his face, on the back of his thighs, his ankles shackled to his wrists, spit foaming…
Beautiful Couples
Georgina was sitting on the train and looking at a young couple in front of her. He, with his hair slicked backwards, thick eyebrows, which changed…
Reptile Lust, Part 1
My ex, Freddie, is, and probably always will be, the biggest idiot I've ever known. I mean the guy took our two-year-old son for a ride on a…
An Ant Pie I Don’t Care
They tell me this fable: That the fox, in a meander of the Duratón River, downstream from the town of Sepúlveda, Segovia, in the territory of the…
Camp Survival
The scream woke them in the night. Vic Fusel sat upright in his sleeping bag. "What was that?" Dirk Batten whispered. They'd been taught in survival…
