I wasn’t quite sure where I was when I woke up. I’d opened my eyes, seen the bed and saw the Nagel portrait on the wall. And, from that first impression realized I wasn’t in my own apartment. As the bits [...]
Chapter 5 Moveable Beasts
The plan was to go east as fast as was humanly possible. Reservations were already made at the Sand Dune Inn, right off Highway A-1-A right along the eastern coast of Florida. And, amidst all the activity, my landlord had taken it upon himself to walk back to my apartment, knock and [...]
Chapter Four - The Offer
Only an hour had elapsed when I was woken again, this time by the telephone. It was only when I unglued my crusty, blurred eyes and reached for the receiver that I heard Bob Marley thumping away in the living room and some wretched, half strangle, half scream in the bathroom [...]
Chapter Three Plan B
I’m not sure how long we sat there in the darkness staring at each other like morons. The phone, her phone, rang again and Jeff picked it up again.
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Prologue - 1984
They shuffled noiselessly through the woods, only stopping on occasion to slap at a mosquito or to complain about the enveloping cold. They were all donned in camouflage, or olive drab fatigues they’d purchased with their allowance money from a local Army surplus store.
They carried a variety of items including a machete, an [...]
Chapter Two - Her
I was rudely awakened by Jeff, as he dripped an ice-cube on me. The first thing I saw was his belly jiggling. The second thing I saw was him holding the entire plastic pitcher of orange juice.
“Cut it out fag boy,” I said. “Besides, [...]
Chapter 1 - Why I Don’t Eat Rabbit Anymore
There’s something hideously disturbing and horribly loathsome about the band SuperTramp. Regardless, that’s what was playing in my truck that morning when I was on the way to the grocery. On the day I met her. [...]
