Bye, Bye, Mountain Dew.

I probably started drinking the stuff habitually when I was 15 or 16. By senior year I was walking up the street (South Summit Ave in Gaithersburg) from the High School to the Pop Shoppe (remember that place?) to get a six-pack of the stuff every day at lunch (seniors had open lunch). I know for [...]

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Writing Update

So, in the past month or so, about the only good thing going on in my life is writing. I’ve written four 1000+ stories: “The Appointment”, “Parole”, “There’s An Arrow”, and “The Attraction”. Of the four, two (“Parole” and “There’s an Arrow”) were written to go onto the blog, and have*, whereas “The Appointment” and [...]

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All I Want

Is to be free of this onerous obligation that’s run me into the ground. I want to get in a car and drive and not stop until I see a ‘help wanted’ sign in some small middle-American town, like you could way back when. I want new people in my life. I want simple work [...]

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This year just gets better and better.

That’s sarcasm, by the way. I have $20 in my pocket and $12 in the bank, and both of my credit cards are about to go overdue. There isn’t any food in the house to speak of. I’ve eaten spaghetti four nights in a row because I had the presence of mind to stock up [...]

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