"Was that a bear?" she whispered, pulling the covers over her head. The trip to Yosemite ("yoss-might" as she called it)

Some people are born as diamonds in the rough. Others aren't born at all. And some, the lucky few, are born different. And when I say different, I mean blue hair and mind reading.

I read about her again in the obituary. You know, I wondered what she had been doing all these years.

Oh yes! He had found it! Years of torment by his "friends" at the academy, scorn by the journal community and he was just a few feet from it. It was beautiful. He reached down

In his dream, Matty had to choose between 3 boxes. The first box was green with the symbol of pi on it. The second was smaller, but was glowing with an unseen light. The third

It was a warmy, sunny day when Alfie found the black box. He almost tripped over it on his way to school. It was small with nothing remarkable about it. He picked it up.

satisfaction and Twinkies

I am so over it. First the telephone poles and electric wires...now it's the drones and the lasers, what will be next

christ, I'm fuckin sloshed. I'm five pints and a bottle of bucky down and I've got to get home. 'Peter,' Danny says, 'are you okay?' Does it look like I'm okay you fuckin gobshite?

Here I am, tied to the journey of a musical instrument through the ages and across continents, transcending spatial and temporal dimensions, a mere sub-plot, interwoven with the

Temporary insanity is one of those things you kind of have to lean into, even if you really are insane. You can't afford to have a good day on the stand when going for nuts.

Padding toward him, Julian saw Pepper, the dog he inherited from his niece, Kelly, when she moved away to college. They didn’t allow dogs in the dorms. That was 6 years ago and

Being a sentinent form of energy has its drawbacks. As if not being able to give hugs wasn't bad enough, today I was invited to a birthday party and I realized

I love the Mesa Verde photo. I really need to travel more and am adding that spot to my bucket list.

Today i would choose between good and bad, right or wrong, love and hate. But later that day i thought i choose what was right but sadly i ended up choosing wrong... wayyy wrong.

She was tired of the jokes. "How can you work in a rice cake factory and still be so overweight?"

Nothing spoils fun like finding out it builds character.

Light of the setting sun lit the room uncovering old bookshelves, dried out plants and a bed that have not been used for quite a while. "Oh, God... What happened?"

After you read the Good Book, everything else is bad. And I have graduated from the School of Hard Knocks, but there ain’t nothing do prepare you better for life than the Good Book

Looking toward the west she stared at a small hourglass-shaped 4-acre black-water lake surrounded by waterlogged and stunted trees. Its water was gently lapping against the