After staying in England for about four months in the cold drizzling rains of winter, Kristie headed back to the desert. Her partner, Butch took off for warmer climes – Portugal, where he was arrested two months later for trying to sneak a seventeen year old Portuguese boy out of the country illegally. He claimed… Continue reading Portugal Boy
Category: Shit
Brussels Sprouts
Where else could she get a job? She had just moved to a very cool beach town up the coast, but there were no jobs – or very few. She had a couple of lunch shifts at a little cafe and an occasional fill in for a bartender down by the wharf, but she needed… Continue reading Brussels Sprouts
Goodwill
They teased her about her clothes. Sometimes she wished that story about the girl with 100 Dresses was true. Maybe her parents couldn’t afford to buy her new clothes, but at a certain point when she reached her teens she was given her aunt’s old clothes to wear. Her aunt was seven years older to… Continue reading Goodwill
Fuckin’ Mike
“Somebody’s shitting on my lawn.” “Really?” “Yes, really.” “So, it’s human?” “Most definitely.” She thinks it’s one of her students trying to establish his identity. He thinks it is the new neighbor (that fucker, Mike) who is rumored to be doing it to everyone who has a lawn, but even the guy with the rock… Continue reading Fuckin’ Mike
Cheatum
She was standing behind the counter ready to take his order. They hadn’t expected to see each other in this situation and a flood of memories came back to her… and not in a nice way. Some rowdy guys had already tried to sit in the closed section of the restaurant and she just wasn’t… Continue reading Cheatum