Janis in Port Arthur, Texas
09/02/2017
Excuse me, sir, but need an assist? I can see that you’re sitting around like a hang-dog watching the water recede from your porch like someone’s pulled the bathtub plug
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The Divorce Column
08/26/2017
They’d been married for more than 20 years but hadn’t lived together for most of that time, she firmly fastened like a paper clip to one side of the country,
Gus Bigman, the Giant
08/23/2017
There once lived a giant, not your ordinary run-of-the-mill giant. Spiders and beetles fought each other for a place to room in his greasy hair. He never brushed his teeth. They
Hit the Road, Jack
08/21/2017
A family of quail scurry out from stage left and stage right and plow into each other. All of them look like drama queens. I tell her, “Watch out. You don’t
Zumba Class
08/15/2017
We started going at the same time, angling to get a spot not too close to the front of the mirror, but not too far in the back either. One day Jan and I
My Toyota Corolla
08/11/2017
There have to be at least ten other white Corollas lined up in the mall parking lot. Doesn’t matter. Something in my body responds to the curve of its fins.
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