An Ode to American Cars

As a kid I used to ride with my folks in a battered old green Dodge pickup as weathered and dented as it was solid, up craggy Oregon mountains and down pot-holed red dirt roads

Going to Taco Bell with Dirk

My housemate Dirk works hard and late (he earned a literature degree from an Ivy League university before going "crazy" for years) Now he studies computers at the local university

Our Story: His and Her Circumstances (Chapter Two)

They were smiling and laughing. But when they walked through the door of Mr. Brown's office, my friends knew something was wrong.

Our Story: His and Her Circumstances (Chapter One)

Some people would never put up with stuff like this. A scary grandma, creepy brother, and overprotective parents… If my buddies would have heard those words they would've left the girl already.

Lana Turnbridge

Lana just needs a bit of encouragement.............
Cherry

High on Snow (Inspiration Point)

High on Snow (IP) (13th March, 2009, 20.49pm) Edgeless precipice; you look down, precarious, high on snow. I watch you. Naïve, I stumble in the light, troughed in some unbefitting,

Still Sisters

I love Kipling, no apologies. The Armed Forces will always love him, despite his faults. He absolutely understood the whole sorry, noble, mad and efficient-despite-itself circus that is the military.
Cherry

Soliloquy in Yellow

you lick the smoke from your cigarette and grin; your musings are an abstract to me.

Power Sabotaged : A New Life For Sheila : Part 2 : Heavengate

Sheila walks to the shopping centre to try to find some foodstocks after power cut destroys distribution systems.

Pages