Trip To The Store – Part 4

"Some days turn into very eventful days!"

Dinner was a blur of conversation about topics I am hard pressed to remember, since almost as soon as we sat down across from each other I found the pleasant addition of her foot in my lap. I kept one...

Trip To The Store – Part 2

"Some days turn into very eventful days!"

When I got home, I noticed the answering machine had a new message. A pleasant female voice asked me to call their call center at an 800 number. When I called I was a little nervous to discover that the...

Trip To The Store – Part 3

"Some days turn into very eventful days!"

By the time I gathered all the shoes with extra friends embedded in the insoles, and started walking to the back, I heard water running. When I rounded the corner, Marisa was perched on the counter beside the sink. She...

Trip To The Store – Part 1

"Some days turn into very eventful days!"

It’s late spring and the tent caterpillars come out and strip the leaves off of the trees. The poplar trees in my area are pretty bare and as a result, the caterpillars go on the move looking for more leaves...

Sticky Afternoon

"A man and woman meet on a bus and proceed to while away a lovely afternoon"

Sticky Afternoonby Rajah Dodger (c) 1994, 2009     It was a sticky afternoon, and Karl was tired of waiting for the bus, tired of looking for work, just plain tired.  He tapped his fingers impatiently against his briefcase as he slouched...

My Beer Buddy

"When Boys Night Out becomes one boy night in another."

Despite us calling it "boys night out," most of the time Tony and I would hang out in his finished basement on our occasional evenings. Basketball season was our favorite. Tony's wife, Marsha, would order us up a couple pizzas,...

Temporary Release

"Robert finds himself alone with the hot new temp."

Robert flashed his badge to security and took the lift to the sixth floor, checking himself out in the mirror as he ascended. He was in uncommonly high spirits for a Monday morning, looking forward to an easy week of...