My friends Jack and Kayla had a cool idea for gifts for their first born due in January: give a book instead of whatever else. I picked a book, and I included this note (handwritten, I haven’t had a printer since the second divorce more than a decade ago). Happy reading, my friends. Harrison, YourContinue reading “The Gift Of Reading”
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For Immediate Release (A Fiction)
Mmmmumph! Sunday noon-ish with the office to himself (close enough), Gerry Whitaker, 52, divorced and childless, baldheaded, facestubbled, unapoligetically potbellied, leaning back in his chair as he goes through his emails, belches some of the ginger ale and cold pizza he had for breakfast. He scrawls through the usual minor-league scores and assorted other emails.Continue reading “For Immediate Release (A Fiction)”
Go In Peace (A Fiction)
The photograph, yellowed, creased and 30 years old, sits in a heavy pewter frame on a table next to the television. Luke looks at the photo in the living room/office/baby room of the small apartment he shares with his wife, Ella, and son, Thelonious. But this isn’t a photo of his immediate family; it’s LukeContinue reading “Go In Peace (A Fiction)”
The Pep Talk (A Fiction)
I’m going to tell you it’s not like that. You can’t go about your business that way. You try to fly by the seat of your pants and wing it here, and you’re not going to be here long. You try that again, kid, you’ll get killed. What I’m saying is, you gotta learn toContinue reading “The Pep Talk (A Fiction)”
Something To Say (A Fiction)
“It’s quite clever, you see,” Smith smirks, adds a third cream to his Americano. “You simply reverse the first or first and second letters of two words or a name. It sounds similar to what your brain expects to hear, and yet it’s different. More playful.” Smith, sitting across the Formica table from me atContinue reading “Something To Say (A Fiction)”
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