Their Color
Foreword: Cecilia lives a colorful life, but no one is more colorful than her husband Abel. This story is a bit of an experiment for me, as well as practice with description and imagery. I twisted the concept from a game/practice...
The Wanderer
Foreword: Tell us where you have been, and the things you have done. Another poem for you! And it's a SONNET! This piece was written as part of an assignment for a class I had last semester focusing on jazz, blues,...
Water Closet Trolling
_Water Closet Trolling_ "Rotten sniveling little backwashed dog-trash lazy stupid ugly . . . ASS!" Ledding's voice echoed off the whitewashed walls of the station and clean linoleum floors. He ascended the stairs and looked around the main...
Rejecting God
_Rejecting God_ It was a remarkably average day until Randall got a call from God. His shift at the restaurant had ended and he was relaxing at home. The possum was tired, wondering if it was worth it to turn on his video games when his phone...
Castrato
**_Castrato_** They brought the cub to me when he was five. Even one such as I was skeptical. I demanded a demonstration. He looked to his father, a destitute, grubby thing, embarrassed to be in the presence of one such as myself. In my fine home,...
Proper Planning
_Proper Planning_ "Hey, Kevin," Lukas, a slightly stocky raccoon in his late twenties, said, "would you mind helping me out and stocking bread?" Kevin, a scrawny fennec some years younger than Lukas, turned away from the vending machine and his...
Professor Will Not Face Charges for Sophomoric Acts
**Professor Will Not Face Charges for Sophomoric Acts Across Time** _May Fourth, Los Angeles_ Professor Albert Rosen will apparently not be facing charges over what his critics call "an inconceivably stupid and catastrophically dangerous series of...
Little Wings of the Storm
Foreword: A terrible storm may rattle windows, blow leaves, and streak with lightning, but can be memorable for different reasons. Another poem out of me! This is another free verse work; I avoided a specific meter and...
Moroneae Domesticus
Foreward: Spiders are just little pests . . . unless you work with a bunch of idiots. An absolutely absurd comedy piece, inspired by Monty Python, cartoons, and my own debilitating fear of spiders. This would probably work better in a more...
Workplace Romances
_Workplace Romances_ Kevin was destined for greater things. No, those greater things weren't astronaut or politician or "_coffee master_," whatever that was; but greater than the night shift at a crummy grocery store. The fact he hated his job was...
I Can Do It Better
_I Can Do It Better_ The music from the sound system cut to a low hiss. Corey turned around to the stage, if it could even be called that, where some young tiger was tuning an acoustic guitar. Dissonant chords filled the room and Corey quietly...
FML
_FML_ Kevin placed a few more candy bars on the rack, trying to arrange them neatly. Then he leaned back, tossed his head behind him, rolled his shoulders and sighed. Part of it was sincere fatigue, the other was sincere boredom. Not a lot of people...