So, I took my wife’s car in to have the tires rotated. It was a two-hour wait. “No problem,” I said as I held up the book I had with me. My plan was to sit quietly and read, but the kids in the waiting area had other plans. Instead, I walked across the parking…

A pharmacist employed at the corner drug store came to work only to find a guy leaning against a nearby wall. Curious, he asks the newly hired clerk, “So, what’s up with that guy?” The new clerk responds, “Well, he came in this morning to get something for his cough, but I couldn’t find the…

She knocked politely on the door and waited. Something move in the peripheral of her right eye, but when she turned her head to look, nothing was there. “Hello,” the woman said as she opened the door, “You must be Amelia, here about the maid job.” “Yes, ma’am.” “Well, come on in. My name is…

Having lost my parents, my only brother and a sister, I tend to feel deeply for friends and family who suffer the passing of a family member. There is so much to do when a loved one dies, that the normal activities in life can feel overwhelming.  And since I’m unable to be present and act as…

Charlie sat on the bench in the Walmart waiting to pick up his medication. Next to him sat an elderly lady, well older than Charlie, and she was a chatter-box. He patiently listen as the woman talked about her life and all the exciting adventures she’d lived through. But what she mostly talked about was…

The dig was going along swimmingly for the old archaeologist. Soon, he’d have all the answers to the age-old question that science struggled with for eons: where did man come from? Professor Horatio Goldfarb jus’ didn’t know it yet. Evolution had long ago hypothesized that Homo Sapiens descended from monkeys or apes. ‘Old Farb,’ as…

He rolled over, stiff and cold from where he’d collapsed the night before. The abandoned house, trashed from its misuses by the other druggies, left a fowl stench in his nose, making him gag. Sid Clayton slowly sat up, hurting and dope sick. He knew he needed to find another fix soon or he’d really…

My dog and I walk lazily along the lake’s sandy shoreline. Screaming her warning, the crow flies in circles below the tree branches. Looking closely, her fledgling chick’s on the ground, a snake gliding towards it. A couple walk to a park bench overlooking the water. They sit so uncomfortably close. Then the young man…

A rat swallowed his wife’s diamond earring. Upset, the husband hired a man to find and recover the jewel. When the man arrived, he found there were more than one-hundred rats trapped in the cellar. He also saw one rat sitting alone and not interacting with the rest of the mischief. He quickly captured it…

The morning air was brisk as he sat in the old rocker on his porch, rifle on his knees and a tin cup filled with warmed coffee. It wasn’t unlike the countless mornings Seamus Dolan had seen in the many years he lived in the cabin on the edge of the redwood forest overlooking the…