Sunday, June 4, 2006
AD - I’m trying to think of where to start here. Well, first of all, where were you during Katrina? You were at the VFW out here on the coast here?
JC - The Armed Forces Retirement Home, in Gulfport.
AD - And it’s my understanding that you guys had to vacate that premises [...]
He’s been likened to Michael Jordan, inasmuch as Jordan has changed the sport of basketball, The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore has forever altered the field of weather forecasting. Whether it’s a blizzard in the northeast, a tornado in the mid-west or a Category 4 hurricane, like Katrina, on the Gulf Coast, Cantore has been there.
So [...]
The Day Fun Died
It has suddenly come to my attention that there are individuals working together with the media who are investigating my personal background in an effort to find indiscretions which may be exploitable against me and my party on the eve of the upcoming historic vote on impeachment.
When I did an early interview [...]
Darker Places
Not the pit, anything but the pit. They could kill him, they could torture him all they wanted. He could accept this. And he did. He had no choice but to accept it. Sure. The lashings hurt.
Bamboo slivers.
They looked like toothpicks in the hands of the squinty-eyed bastard who seemed to be [...]
New England
Within a month Sarah got a job at a hospital located between the college
where Steven taught and the apartment he shared with Sarah. Matt took a job selling and renting time-shares. Shortly after they both landed jobs, Matt and Ashley moved out of Steven and Sarah’s apartment.
The move wasn’t a very big one. It [...]
Old Lady Robinson
As he clicked off, Sarah looked at him, the concern in her face painfully obvious.
“What is it?” she asked.
“That was Faciane,” he replied. “They got the toxicology results back from Mom and Dad. No alcohol in their systems,” he said.
“Then what’s wrong Steven?” she asked him.
“Well, in addition to having just about every [...]
Halloween
Halloween was coming.
The morning air had turned crisp and cool and dried leaves covered the ground. The boy, cheeks red from the chilly air, was sitting in the front passenger seat. He was looking first at his reflection in the side-view mirror and then across the street,
to the neighbor’s houses which were already decorated with [...]
Funeral for a Friend
The week was hectic, but also seemed to creep slowly as Steven, Sarah, Ashley and Matt stayed at the hotel.
It began, in the pre-dawn hours of their first night at the hotel, when Steven and Sarah decided to invite Ashley and Matt to come stay with them in New England. Ashley and [...]
Aidan: The Cult
And so it’s getting late and there’s not fuck to do at Waves tonight, except for drink and watch Monday Night Football, an exhibition game, New York Giants versus last year’s champions the Chicago Bears. I could care less about either team. I’ve always been a Steelers fan.
August is winding down. All the [...]
Story Time
One by one they shuffled noiselessly down the hall and waited at the door to the hotel room as Steven tumbled in his pocket for the key to the room. As they made their way down the long hallway, Steven caught himself thinking that a single file line was the best way to hide [...]
