A Father’s Worry
Another early morning where the sun is about to rise in the summertime of Lilongwe, Malawi. Two escort drivers, Andrew and Vincent, are about to…
“Fourteen” and “Seventeen”
Fourteen All his life, he'd had a dim awareness of his own stupidity and laziness. From moment to moment, it drew nearer or hung back, like a panther…
Love Mummy
It’s been three years since my last relationship and I haven’t had much success since. My former secretary Molly was sweet, but a little dense and…
The Freak of My Dreams
That primal urge crept upon me on a Saturday, its heated breath at my loins, begging for release. So I went through the same old tired routine---turn…
A Conversation at Dana Point
Andy said once more that God could never allow a human being to enter a state as terrible as immortality. We were sitting on the back of the rental…
Cannae
I walk an avenue in a tonier part of my Rust Belt city on a cold-as-shit March day. Pretty, professional gals walk past me. Hipster dudes,…
Japanese GF
I always pondered what it’d be like to leave the poisonous women of the Western world and plant my roots in the Far East. So one day, I hopped on a…
Eleven
No special circumstances in their meeting; nothing impressed itself into their memories. Only later, when their two lives began to somehow tie…
Plight
You awaken. Eyes bloodshot from lack of sleep, back sore after the night of tossing and turning on the concrete floor beneath you. The metal-barred…
Veteran
Geoff joined the Army at Estancia High School. He didn't graduate. In July, after four tours of Iraq, Geoff came back to his friend Jose's apartment…
