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: Shit
Haircut
She hated them! Hated Them! They didn’t have names like Mom or Dad. She just hated them for everything. His drunken meanness, her inability to protect the children from his outfall. They cut her hair – her long thick straight honey blond hair. He was drunk and laughing. He called her outside with the scissors… Continue reading Haircut
Juvie
Her father was drunk again. He pulled her out of bed, took off his belt and began beating her in an uncontrollable frenzy. He whipped her and whipped her while her terrified sister and little brothers huddled close to their screaming mother. This was to be the end of it. She was seventeen. It was… Continue reading Juvie
It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye
It’s so hard to say goodbye. The little mama, so pretty and sweet… It’s the last supper and all the kids are there. They laugh and joke, but the underlying tone is death. This is the last time they will all sit together to share a meal as a family. Mama arrives in an ambulance.… Continue reading It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye
I Cry Out
I awake alone and cold in the dark. I cry out howling But no one can hear me. He is not there. He will be angry I know… and it will cost us. I hope not that much. I worry about the fish swimming cold and maybe dead with no air to breathe. I am… Continue reading I Cry Out