Short Stories From A Tall Guy
My mind races, recalling everything I’ve seen and heard since I came into town as I head back to the register. I think I recall seeing someone turn down an aisle as I entered but I’m not sure. I wasn’t paying attention.There were two abandoned shopping carts of food by the entrance, which I AM […]
Any one can navigate these bumpy, hole ridden dirt roads in a monstrous 4×4, but it takes someone with a TRUE sense of adventure to traverse them in a compact, four-door family sedan. My car is just such a car; a true adventurer’s car. Everyone would think a proper adventurer’s vehicle would be a Jeep, […]
First stop, refrigerator. I yank the door open and lean in, examining the menu of condiments: ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard. Questionable science experiment? Or left overs from the barbecue last month? No… two months ago. Has it been two months? I check the calendar on the wall, just to be sure. May 6th; two months and […]
FROM HIS VANTAGE POINT ATOP THE ROOF ACROSS THE STREET, KENNETH COULD SEE STRAIGHT DOWN THE ALLEY; FROM THE STREET ENTRANCE ALL THE WAY TO THE DEAD-ENDING BRICK WALL WHERE SHARI STOOD. SHARI WAITED IN THE DIM LIGHTING, HER BACK TO THE WALL WITH TERROR LOCKED UPON HER FACE AS SHE ANTICIPATED THE ARRIVAL OF […]