The delights of a motorway service station hotel were not immediately apparent to me. McDonald's and KFC are not exactly haute cuisine. The noisy and very functional hotel was not Shangri La. I was working in Bristol, living in London. To avoid a daily co...
It was our fifteenth wedding anniversary, and my wife B had scored us a great deal for beer tasting at a brewery about an hour and a half away. We both enjoyed a personalized flight of samples and a pint of our favorite so we each had a nice buzz once we...
The start of the four-day Memorial Day weekend holiday had arrived and the Blake family is heading to their Summer cottage. Dad's 1960 Buick LeSabre wagon had been packed to capacity the night before with the supplies they would need for cleaning their co...
Twenty-four-year-old Maya had lived all her life in Los Angeles. Her mother took off when she was twelve and never looked back. Her father, Mateo, found himself as a single father. He did the best he could. Truth be told, it was a lot better than many of...
"Fuck you Jimmy!" she yelled as she stormed out of the wooden house."Fuck me? Fuck you! You're a stupid whiny bitch!" Jimmy said chasing after slamming the screen door as he left."What did you call me?" she turned around as he approached her in his white...
