Prince Charmin
Reluctantly he grabbed the last 12 pack of toilet paper in the store. He lived alone and didn’t need much but he was down to half a roll and even for a single guy that was cutting it close. He…
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Hitchhiking
I’d never hitched a ride before in my life. It was the summer of 1976, a different world but not so different really. I had a job selling books and my territory was upstate western New York. Now New York…
Escape Room
Everyone was whooping and hollering and backslapping. Even those in the group that didn’t want to play were in the spirit. They had made the escape with 20 minutes to spare, but more importantly, they had crushed the time turned…
Best Run Ever
Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. But at 61 I felt like I was hitting on all cylinders. I can’t ski as many days as I want so when I ski, I ski a lot. 300 runs this year, minimum.…
Dad
I liked the darkness. The smell of sawdust from the game table. Blue or magenta glowing lights back-lit a wall of liquor bottles. Rough women and rougher men. No one wanted to talk to a kid. They had serious drinking to…
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