Reluctant for years, I finally relented
Couldn’t persist further with the excuses I’d invented
I brought home a bottle from the grocery store
Willing to try once and then nevermore.
I’d grown tired of beer, or that diet Orange Crush,
Still, I desired a beverage with flavors so lush.
But my experienced palette had fallen into a rut
Until I considered a drink that might help my gut.
There were s...
The heavy must of cigarette fumes mingled with the crisp nighttime air, reflecting the neon of a nearby motel, at once both disgusting and ethereal.
Your friend passes the dart back to you, the two of you standing alone in the otherwise empty mall parking lot. A crushed slushie cup oozes melting blue razz onto the pavement a few feet away, a Styrofoam relic of one of the mall’s few patrons that ...
A dreary day. I headed out for a pack of smokes. Streaks of rain obscured the road. Keeping my head down, I hopped over a brownish puddle into the intersection.
A horn piercing the air, a flash of light. I felt the vehicle clip my shoulder, felt my shoulder screaming from the impact as I tumbled to the ground. Landed on my ass, mud covering my jeans. The black van just kept driving, the sweetish...
Alex put his hand up to shield himself from the strobing effect of what he knew must be a police cruiser. As he did, he felt a strange sensation streaking across his forearm. He lowered his arm and looked down in shock. The warm blood of a fresh wound crawled across his skin, trailing from a mangled etching on the back of his left hand. He looked up in horror.
The two officers flanking him appea...