Captain Midnight is always careful. It’s not just Captain Midnight I’m worried about it. It’s his alter ego. And who might that be? My Love Muffin. Myron grinned into the receiver. Hey, Jess, did you...
But sometimes, maybe most times, it isn't that clear. It is dark and you are near the edge of a cliff, but you're moving slowly, not sure which direction you're heading in. Your steps are tentative bu...
Billy Joel was on the radio, singing, I love you just the way you are. Big talk, Myron mused, when you’ve been married to Christie Brinkley.
Big Cyndi is six-six and on the planetoid side of three hundred pounds, the former intercontinental tag-team wrestling champion with Esperanza, aka Big Chief Mama to Esperanza's Little Pocahontas. Her...
Being this handsome. It is not easy, you realize.’ ‘And yet you suffer without complaint.
Whenever I see a table of college friends sitting together they are inevitably texting with unseen others, searching, always searching, I guess, for something that might be better, a perpetual life hu...
Closely—you can’t have a front without a back, you can’t have an up without a down, and I’m not sure you can have light without dark, purity without sleaze, good without evil.
And then every once in a while, you remember to pull up and look at your partner, your life partner, really look at the one who travels down the lonely road right by your side, and you realize how muc...
You want this so badly—this second chance, this chance at real redemption—that you can’t see the truth. What
It was all so damn fragile, that was the thing. Obvious, for sure,but for the most part we block - we refuse to think about how easily our lives could be torn asunder, because when we recognize it, we...
I wasn’t sure what to do. I knew that the main house was about a quarter mile up the drive. I could leave my car here and walk it. See what’s what. But what would be the point? I hadn’t been up here i...
I treat every student who walks through those doors the same because we are here to teach, if not political science, maybe a little something about critical thinking or even—gasp!—life. If students ca...
How long’s the ride? I asked. Berleand looked at his wristwatch. About thirty seconds. He may have overestimated. I had, in fact, seen the building before—the bold and stark sandstone fortress sitting...
Hello there, he said to me. My name is Buddy Ray. What’s yours? He had a faint lisp. I swallowed. Robert Johnson. Buddy Ray’s smile would make small children flee to their mamas. Nice to meet you, Rob...
He tried to read, but the words swam in front of his eyes in meaningless waves. He put on the television. Nick at Nite, the cultural equivalent of aerosol cheese.
Butterface. Then Thomas spoke slowly. But. Her. Face. Adam tried not to smile
But life changes people. It smothers that kind of larger-than-life woman. Time quiets them down. That firecracker girl you knew in high school—where is she now? It didn’t happen to men as much. Those...
But grief likes to hide behind bushes. It enjoys leaping out of nowhere, startling you, mocking you, stripping away your pretense of normalcy. Grief lulls you to sleep, thus making that blindside hit...
Ambition is natural when you don't have anything. You know what you're driving for.
Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something