"2 oz quality gin, 3/4 oz fresh squeezed lime juice, soda or seltzer water, cubed ice"
“Hi, Cornelius. No, not my usual. It’s too damn hot for vodka. I’ll have a Gin Rickey, please, with Bombay Sapphire.“Well, I see you don’t waste any time. No, you’re not intruding, and no, the seat’s not taken. But a...
"Some bars have great stories behind them. Lady Lucille’s has a legend."
Lady Lucille’s Bar & Grill has been a fixture down on Second Street for many years. Supposedly it was once even closer to the river, but back in the big floods of ’93 it survived only because the owner and...
"Our fling started as something that was almost nothing; an innocent conversation after work, that later turned in to an uncontrollable fire that consumed the two of us."
He was an executive of our company; he had just recently moved to my hometown and took an office at our location. He was very handsome, always well dressed, tall, maybe about 6’3 and always smelled delicious. He had smooth...
"Intending to celebrate a fresh lease on life, events take an unexpected turn for two divorcees"
Tara wouldn’t normally wear a dress exposing so much cleavage, but as she busted through the door of a lightly decorated Roper’s bar to meet her bestie, Cassie, she felt like they were the sexiest women in the entire city....
"Everything Carl wanted to know."
Glenda opened the door carefully. She unlocked it and walked in, her shoes wobbling between her fingers, her bare feet treading on the tips of her toes.The darkness, she didn't turn it off, she walked towards the bedroom and that's...
"Sarah tries to figure out what to do next"
We didn’t hang out. He didn’t call. I didn’t text. I’d say that I didn’t wait by the phone, but it's the 21st century; it stayed glued to my hand as I doomscrolled Twitter and compared myself to people on...
"Sarah finds love in the unlikeliest of places."
I never expected to be a barfly, but it turned out to be a pretty good life choice.Six-year-old Sarah expected to be a Disney princess. Hell, I looked like one; Snow White, to be specific: black hair, pale complexion, rosy...
"Vivian snags her absent roommate's boyfriend."
Vivian Hannity was still in a Catholic high school in the three stories within the series "Vivian and Cathy.” Certain incidents from that time more than four years earlier are mentioned here. The narrator, Paul D’Amato, was in his first...
"Her tongue led her to romance and just as quickly to loss."
Friday night in Anytown, USA. High school football is king for students and former jocks lying about their glory days on the gridiron. (What the fuck is a gridiron?) Since I know more about quantum physics than football the local...