"Las Vegas is just like any other normal American city says new mayor."
I was a long way from the roach-infested tenement back in the Big Apple, sitting on my thirty-something ass in an always open waffle house just off the Las Vegas Strip. I was looking for the lo-cal blueberry syrup because...
"He had it all and it blinded him to love."
I probably shouldn’t be writing anything out in public about my former best friend, Lenny Mazurka, but now that he is dead and buried, I can only say, What’s the problem?Lenny and I go way back.Back before his womanizing became...
"Double-crossed by a hot brunette, is revenge a dish best served immediately?"
Until now, I'd never needed to watch my own house for signs of someone trying to kill me. How things change in the space of a few hours. I stared hard through the windshield, eyes watering between blinks, keeping low...
"When the heist goes wrong, could the captured woman prove to be more than a handful?"
I like women like my cars: expensive and dangerous. But the brunette hammering on the inside of the trunk lid of my 2015 Mustang GT was in a different class on both counts. Seemed like she was trying to outgun...
Some memories don’t stick. They’re not important or consequential enough to make a lasting impression. But I remember Aiden. Everything about Aiden. For the first time in my life, in my messed-up shunted around excuse of a life, I felt...
"Cliff, a private detective, is on his way to Las Vegas to track down the guy who stole from the mob."
It was 1930, and life was closing in on folks ever since the Stock Market crash the year before. The only people making money were gangsters and bootleggers for this was still Prohibition in the United States Cliff, a private...
I can't look back, at what I left in my wake; it's already time to go once more. Would have left a note, if I had a shred of tact, but I just allowed myself one last mistake... Didn't say...
"Sonnet #6: In alternating trimeter and tetrameter, and Shakespearean rhyme."
Wake up cold, scream out loud, Against silence and absent sound. Aroused, bold, cut the crowd, Feline frenzy on broken ground. Gowned in pretty tatters, Aching bodies pounce, hard as stone. Lustful whimsy shatters The house, of feather, pane and...
"In a world of sadness we must all find our happiness."
When we turn on the television It seems bad news and tragedy rule, Natural disasters are everywhere There are even shootings in school.The world is full of so much sadness It is full of disappointment and pain,Somehow even if we...
"A litmus test. Bear with me."
My name is Waxy; and the map to my life is on my face, bodyand hands: a patchwork of scars and badly healed fractures. I first got pinched when I was eleven; stealing fruit from the back of cart vendors...
