Valium & Vodka: Chapter One
Reid Travis rolled half-asleep into the parking lot of his apartment complex in a dated Chevrolet pickup truck just before five AM. Roads, cars, and buildings warped around him in his drunken haze. In the morning, he would admonish himself for...
Valium & Vodka: Chapter Twelve
The emptiness of the apartment breathed with an air of death's presence in Kelvin's life when he woke up in Reid's bed. It smelled like him, which was why after nearly falling asleep at the wheel on his way back to the apartment, Kelvin had crashed...
In The Doghouse: Final Chapter
_One month later..._ _"Not a day goes by that I don't think about it."_ _ _ _ Reid sat on the couch in Dr. Soto's office as relaxed as he could be, his arms outstretched over the back of the overstuffed leather sofa. He wet his lips. Sighed....
In The Doghouse: Chapter Four
Reid stood there, his face frozen in the same smile he'd worn the moment he reached out to shake her hand. Slowly, the corners wilted, and his affable grin turned into a queasy, borderline creepy display of his teeth. Vance blinked, and Lucy took on a...
Valium & Vodka: Final Chapter
In the morning, it was water instead of beer. A handful of peanuts had become a handful of pills. Immunosuppressants. Anxiolytics. Anticonvulsants, benzodiazepines, painkillers, and blood thinners, just to name a few. They sat on his tongue like...
In The Doghouse: Chapter One
Every day was a new start for Reid Travis. The sunny, mild, California mornings greeted him with easterly sunrises and fair weather to which he could complete his morning routine, which now no longer consisted of alcohol consumption before noontime...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Eight
Reid stared at a blank wall in his house and figured that it would be a perfect spot for a fireplace, assuming that a fireplace would ever be needed for the seventy-degree Christmases known almost exclusively to Californians. While a fireplace was out...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Ten
Cruel and unusual punishment, thy name is a crying baby. Vance awoke at the ungodly hour of zero-two-hundred, red-eyed and hoping that Blaine would shuffle out of bed and tend to Kaitlin, who was calling for them in the way babies do for the third...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Six
It had been four months since Blaine had nearly fainted from the reading on the drug store pregnancy test. She'd gone through no less than three more before an appointment with her OB/GYN confirmed that she was in fact pregnant. She was beginning to...
Valium & Vodka: Chapter Three
It was a thirty minute drive from Reid's home in Glendale to Santa Monica, where all the guys from Doghouse were hamming it up with potential clients, schmoozing with the ladies, and downing drink after overpriced drink. Anxiety welled up inside...
Valium & Vodka: Chapter Eleven
Reid's brain had gone into hyperdrive. Tan-furred hands quivered and shook like those of a man three times his age as he tried to push a 13mm deep socket onto a hex nut holding an exhaust manifold in place. He could hear the tool laughing at...
In The Doghouse: Chapter Thirteen
"That can't be good." Reid muttered to himself, pulling to a stop in his truck in front of Vance's modest, suburban home. Vance's Supra was parked in the haphazard way not uncommonly seen amongst the habitually drunk. Half in the driveway, half in the...