The date was not going well. At least not in a linear sense. She held me close as we stood at the entrance to a golf.club store full of high-end golf carts people could use for the day and then drive home. “Wow, look at the shit righ people buy,” I said to her. I could feel her snug closer. …
My friend was a great hero, a ranger whose story would be told across the ages. She would go on to ve known as the warrior who defeated the spider God with one arrow. One of her earliest feats was climbing to the sky. The route was up a single tree. I and another person accompanied her on her first …
I hated Bob less than I thought I would. At first blush, I thought he’d be a natural blend of arrogance and an easy “Aww shucks, of course I tried to sleep with your wife” morality. He had depth, though. He was genuinely sad that his kids hated him and put some energy into trying to correct it. I was …
I found myself sitting at an admitting table in a hospital in an English seaside town. One of the local fisherman reached me after my boat sank. Across the table was a college friend. Next to me was someone I went to high school with. How did my ship sink, one asked. My only answer was a German U-Boat, which …
I got out of the shower as the winds picked up. They were fierce enough that they were shaking the old house. From the nearby bedroom, I could hear the people who lived in the house laughing. Some were getting ready to leave. The host was preparing for a day spent smoking marijuana and playing video games. Earlier he’d threatened …
I pulled over and parked my car in front of a yard. The garage sale I wanted to visit was at the end of the cul-de-sac, but that yard always had the loveliest display of plants and I wanted to give them a close look. The plants were a display of water-intense flowers growing in a ditch. Up the driveway, …
I was sitting around a cistern decorated with aquamarine classical Greek inlay in a shopping mall with friends. For some reason there were balloons. One was knocked against the corner of a the cistern and popped. A redhead walked up holding a potted plant she’d purchased from one of the stores. I watched her set it down. She said she …
I found myself in a farmhouse sitting atop a hill with a dirt drive leading down to the road. Inside the house were several of my friends. They were seated on a circular couch set around a coffee table in one of the downstairs living rooms. The woman who owned it, who’d earlier that year tried to clumsily seduce me, …