Untitled work, rough draft, not edited, read at your own risk, etc etc etc.  Also copyrighted, please don’t repost anywhere. Thanks. You can catch up from the beginning here. Strike or not, my alarm goes off at six in the morning. I fumble for the alarm, hand flailing against the bedside table several times. I almost give, Read More

Untitled work, rough draft, not edited, read at your own risk, etc etc etc.  Also copyrighted, please don’t repost anywhere. Thanks. You can catch up from the beginning here.   Get your parents to watch your kid. Asshole. I’m back at my car, without really noticing how I got there.  I don’t know the guy who walked, Read More

Untitled work, rough draft, not edited, read at your own risk, etc etc etc.  Also copyrighted, please don’t repost anywhere. Thanks. You can catch up from the beginning here.   Lucas Cervone, a slightly chubby nine-year-old with bright red cheeks, looks up from the table when I speak to him. “It’s my cat, Mister P.” “Oh yeah?”, Read More

Untitled work, rough draft, not edited, read at your own risk, etc etc etc.  Also copyrighted, please don’t repost anywhere. Thanks. You can catch up from the beginning here. “I don’t wanna eat my vegetables,” Jasmine says for the four-hundredth time. Just in case I didn’t hear her before. I wave a fork in her direction. “I’m, Read More

Untitled work, rough draft, not edited, read at your own risk, etc etc etc.  Also copyrighted, please don’t repost anywhere. Thanks. You can catch up from the beginning here. It’s early to leave for the teacher work day before  starts, but at one in the afternoon Tyler shows up at my door. He chuckles as he walks, Read More