I suppose you ought to know you’re in trouble when you realize you consider your daily dive into the soothing depths of the bottle to be somehow heroic. But the truth is that I was not just a willful and … Continue reading
Damn. My pals have been shuffling off this mortal coil faster than I can recover my equilibrium, here. I guess I shouldn’t have been so surprised, Ben had been in the hospital a month or two ago with congestive heart … Continue reading
It was a rainy, March day in 1973 — a little like this rainy, March day. My ex-GF was wrapped up in the ratty old full-length mink we’d bought for a few bucks at a Purple Hearts Veteran Thrift Store. … Continue reading
Each new dream… same as the last. And yet they kept on coming. A procession of rosy futures… glimmering… flickering… fading. He stared at the surface of the coffee sitting in the stained mug on his warehouse desk. There was … Continue reading
You almost read about this in the evening news instead of in this blog. This happened just about two hours ago… When the cocked .45* came out from behind the cop’s leg, honest to God, I found myself thinking — … Continue reading
