In the hospital, I lay on my death bed tucked into starched white sheets where I will die. If there is an afterlife to come I will find out, just not at this moment. Right now, in the bed next to me, an old man’s time has come to pass into the unknown. Out of […]
I slide my only quarter into the meter—one hour for lunch—and check my wallet to make sure I haven’t already lost the only twenty dollars to my name. Since I never get to go out with my girlfriend, my roommate Aric let me borrow some cash. Post doctoral students don’t make much. My watch reads 12:02; […]
Writing is like swimming in a sea of shit and it is a one man race to the finish. One day you wake up in this vast ocean of crap and you have to swim to the other side, but you are not told where the other side is. So you just start swimming, trying […]
“Clay, give me another whiskey.” “You’ve had enough Gary. Go home to your family.” “Ahhh… fuck you,” I say, stumbling off the bar stool, and out the freely swinging front door. The city street smells of trash, not much different than the bar. Clay doesn’t know my family is dead. The picture in my wallet […]