Emanuel did not know that he had finally met The Woman until late after the party at his best friend’s house in Phoenix, Arizona. At the party he behaved as usual, reserved, courteous and always complimenting the older ladies. He had noticed the tall, slim and gracious woman greeting the guests along with his friend’s [...]
Science says the weight of a human soul is 21 grams. When death of the physical occurs, 21 grams in weight decreases. This is my take on it. While this alludes to a receiving department on their way to heaven or hell, it is in no way scriptural and is intended as fiction only. The [...]
Things sure have changed since I was a kid. Nowadays they buckle up for safety and sit in the back seat in a special booster chair complete with belly pad, plush seat cover, head pillow and three position crotch strap. I remember standing up on the front seat of our Ford Fairlane, next to my [...]
In the untamed world of the domestic cat, the one thing that is guaranteed to get you in trouble in the neighbourhood is the name your human owner gives you. *** Hobson opened his one remaining good eye, yawned, stretched and sat up before meticulously grooming his fur and licking his battle wounds. Since he [...]
Crashing thunderous and metallic shrill sounding Kapow from a car-bomber’s king sized kaboom ricochet off the walls of surrounding buildings as if they were Wylie E Coyote bouncing off the Road Runner’s deceptive painted train tunnel on the side of a cliff! Smoke swirling sound waves resonate from the unrecognizable rubble that is the lost [...]
Now I don’t want to go off on a rant here, but from the Facebook user that updates their status to “I’m typing on Facebook”, to the Twitter user that follows his stalkers so they can cut down on looking into the mirror, to the YouTube user that scheduled a colonoscopy because they needed new [...]
I stood in line at the bank like I always do the last Friday of the month to deposit the cash I made from moonlighting as a waitress. This was the last place I wanted to be after suffering through a day of teaching teenagers with nonexistent parents and working for a redneck principal. I [...]
The Taxi-Cab driver and his neighbors – a true story. This story took place before September 11, which may explain why the FBI was not involved. Alyosha, the eponymous Russian Taxi-Cab driver lives in Hollywood. He is chubby, good humored, middle aged and an avid gun-collector. In Russia during the wonderful times of the Soviet [...]
Weaving through a maze of technicians and soldiers in the abnormally crowded corridors, Kali rushed towards the flight deck. Waves of panic and discomfort continued to impact on her psi senses. Adrian, their resident computer and all-round technical genius, wasn’t normally this emotional. He was positively inert at times in terms of expressiveness. Something had [...]
I dream of white letters on a flat screen. They mock me in my sleep and haunt my waking hours. I know that somewhere in the unreachable heavens, the word gods are plotting mischief against me. They have to be. No one could be this incredibly unlucky. It defies all mathematical probabilities. Either that, or [...]
