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 sure of as I can […]
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, or a Hummer, but no… […]
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 three days after I left […]
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 THEIR SO-CALLED ‘PREY’. HER BREATHING […]