I’m at a party on the 22nd floor of a building downtown, and based on the decorations it must be New Year’s Eve. My friends are all around me but for now I am alone. I’m watching the city below,
“Spike was bad to the bone. He didn’t care what his parents thought, and he didn’t listen to his teachers. Spike had a friend named Henry who was bad to the bone but not as much as Spike. The two
I have a friend whose internet alter ego is a poorly-executed play on your name. One night many years ago, I drunkenly challenged this friend to eat only Hawkins Cheezies for a week, figuring he would laugh it off and
I’d never done voice work before, but I guess I knew my cadence and baritone delivery was unique. And powerful. So even without any experience or formal training, when I saw a posting in the actual physical newspaper for a
I’m tired. I’m always tired lately. I’ve finished living, if you can call it that, through another eight hours of a routine I could not have imagined myself getting sucked into years ago. Another segment of time wasted helping someone
A voluptuous, moluptuous hippie named Hippo went to the zoo. Now I know what you’re thinking, that I’m going to take the lazy way out here, like I did with the word moluptuous, which isn’t a real word but does
I don’t have any other option. It’s the general’s command, so I obey, even as he is clearly losing control over the situation. If I ever want to return home, I will have to shift into a higher gear and
I was in one of those large electronics stores the other day, looking at speakers and pretending that the differing volts and specs will help me determine which ones I want. I was there returning a keyboard I borrowed for
I have this protégé now. It’s really strange having someone look up to me like he does, but pretty interesting too. Before this, I never felt like my actions made a difference in anyone else’s life but my own. Now
I was walking home the other day and noticed a guy halfway down an alley smoking what I can only describe as the reefer. He noticed me noticing him and then turned around quickly so that I wouldn’t see his
