Down and Out [Version II]
“You...look like hell.” Despite the vulgarity the statement was said with all due affection, one corporate slave to another. Garrison looked up the series of…
I'm Going Out
“I’m going out.” I said it mostly as an instruction to myself. The empty studio apartment neither heard nor cared. On a really bad day I would have pretended…
Burnt
My eyelids slid open, painfully, exposing my eyes to the blazing sun. Something was crunching in the sand behind me. _Oh god, no more scorpions. Sal. Please…
Black Out
At that point I must have blacked out. I only know this because that’s the last thing I remember before Mark is prodding me to get me up. He hands me a purple…
A Most Important Outing
“Where you going?” he asked with his devil’s smile, all teeth and false affection. “Out,” she replied, hands fumbling and slipping over the bulky key chain as…
Light On, Lights Out
Mrs. Light stuck her head in her daughter’s room, “Ezzie, are you...” “Oh! Mom, hey mom! Yes, mom, hi, mom. Yeah! Hey, you look great, great. Great? Great…