The Pig Roast was next Saturday. More than one hundred people were expected. The menu included roasted whole piglet, hamburgers, hot links, coleslaw, potato, macaroni, carrot, and green olive salads, respectively, French bread, baked beans, chips and dips, cases of beer and soda. The mix would be interesting. College students, tannery workers, a few gay… Continue reading Pig Roast
Category: Characters
Home Bound
To say that they were addicted to marijuana was incorrect. They could quit anytime they wanted to with no ill effects. They just didn’t want to quit. They loved that weed. That green stinkin’ weed! It dulled the pain of war and politics. It made food taste better. It made sex feel better. It made… Continue reading Home Bound
Southern Style
Her “Southern Friend” was going off to explore Africa. The attack on the World Trade Center had just occurred and Kristie was concerned about her friend’s safety. “Aren’t you afraid?” “Oh no,” Jeananne insisted in her southern drawl, “I just love A-rabs!” She continued, “We take our own bacon frozen in our suitcases because you… Continue reading Southern Style
Birthday Intervention
She was so cute even in her mid-forties. Childlike dimples, curly brown hair cut loosely around her face, shiny round eyes, and a helpful spirit always muttering a spritely song. She liked helping older people – women mostly with whom she bonds each in her own way. They gather together one surprise Monday afternoon to… Continue reading Birthday Intervention
The SOB
So, the SOB runs out of money and concocts this idea with one of his friends to call Mrs SOB. “Hello, Is this Mrs. SOB.?” “Yes, this is she.” Mrs SOB. was a reasonably educated woman who worked as a bookkeeper with three kids to support and a drunken, gambler, ne’er-do-well, unemployable husband. She had… Continue reading The SOB