Monthly Archives: November 2018

  STILL NO JOY   No one remembered that Mighty Casey had walked with the bases loaded to tie the game, but they did remember that a guy named Babe Ruth won the game with a sharp single to center … Continue reading →

LINE UP   My name is Hernando O’Reilly. Yeh, me madre est Latino and my dad is obviously Irish. Like my old man, I became a cop. My present assignment is the 33rdprecinct on the lower east side of NYC. … Continue reading →

I entered the sea of humanity on my mission to purchase a large picnic basket for an event the next day. It was on a Sunday, the most dreaded day to shop at this mega store.   My eyes scanned the … Continue reading →

I have been a professional people watcher for the last 150 earth years. My planet sent me here to observe and report on humans so the Interplanetary Consortium can determine whether to include them in the group of inhabited worlds … Continue reading →

Thor pondered for a few minutes. He warmed himself by the fire. He grunted and pointed to the rabbit stretched out on the stick as it lay balanced above the fire supported by two stacks of rocks on either side … Continue reading →

Ann couldn’t wait to get to the restaurant to meet her two best friends.  As an international translator, she continuously traveled for her job and had not seen them in months. Between traffic and flight delays, she was frazzled and … Continue reading →

Henry had what he felt was an extremely stressful job, fielding customer complaints for a major airline. To decompress after work, some of his colleagues would gather at the local pub to hoist a few, others took up kick boxing. … Continue reading →

STATE FAIR   She was the cutest, best-looking, hottest girl in the entire high school (at least, I thought so), and she consented to go out with me! We decided to go to the state fair. We spent an absolutely … Continue reading →

  Decisions have been hard for me. Should I choose “A” or “B”? What unconscious forces are pushing me? Some say everything is pre-ordained. Others say everything is accidental and random. So here I stand, trying to make a simple … Continue reading →

When you’ll be damned if you do and damned if you don’t it is better to be damned for doing. Why? Well it takes a somebody to do something and a nobody to do nothing. Don’t be a nobody. Be … Continue reading →

10 seconds. It seems unlikely that the time it takes to yell “olly olly oxen free” could change a life, but it can and did. With golden blonde hair and a smile which lit up the room, 16-year-old Jackie was a … Continue reading →