Category Archives: shorter stories

The Boldest of Days

I miss Shiner Bock. I miss Austin circa 1988. The heat and humidity of the summer nights sitting with us out on the front porch of Bianca’s house just east of the drag as I gulped my first Shiner Bock. The cock-ca-roaches squirreling around the miss-key-toes under the buzzing glow of lighting-bugs. Captain Quacks still [...]

The Greatest Mixtape.

I have had a few quality mixtapes made for me in 35 years. But this one by far affected by perception of good music in 1999. Thank you, Anne. SPACE MONKEY 1. 5 seconds of respect silence 2. Second Skin The Gits 3. Antonio Carlos Jobin Heatmiser 4. Ex-Con (Smog) 5. Rocket Plane Komeda 6. [...]

Quiet the large man.

He sits in any room. He is about three hundred and fifty pounds. Whether he is muscle or fat is undeterminable. It’s just large. He is just large. It doesn’t matter where Edward goes. Through the kitchen into the dining room and there is the man. Out the front door, down 2nd street on the [...]