I walked up the concrete steps and onto the platform. I avoided the group of teenagers at the opposite end. It was best that I was just be by myself for the next few moments. I tapped my foot on the thick yellow line at the edge of the platform and thought to myself for [...]
“Untitled Project”
His eyes opened. The clock blinked 12:00 am.
He was face down on the bed.
“Where is everyone?” The young man walked around the room grabbing different pieces of clothing off the floor. A tattered pair of blue jeans, a blue and white stripped button-up shirt and fitted baseball cap. He sat on the edge of his [...]
5-Mile Drive
I had a 5 mile drive home on one stretch of highway. On this particular day I had forgotten my sunglasses. On a normal day I would be taking a right out of the parking lot then a left onto the highway. Today it is the opposite.
Orange County Brokerage Firm marks the beginning of mile [...]
The Backyard
I can stand in my back yard now and feel like a giant among men. I stand on the slab of concrete off the backside of the house and take in a deep breath off the freshly cut grass. Smells like spring. The smell of new beginnings and new year in our lives. I remembered [...]
The Walk of Shame!
That walk that most of us know from back in our college days. Waking up after drinking our faces off, rolling over 9/10 times waking up to something that we remember being much more attractive the night before and having to walk the four miles back to your dorm room.
The Walk of Shame has been [...]
Old Man and the Cigarette
Bald and bow-legged the man walks down the street. His old steel-toed boots dragged across the ground. He had little hair, long and scraggly on the side, and the top of his head was completely bald. Two sweaty pieces of hair attempt to cover the baldness above.
The man stops and waits a moment and turns [...]
Peeled and Cracked
The house was built up on a road overlooking the hills. Most of the foundation was built into the hillside and was made from stone. The front porch towered over the lawn below. Most of the paint covering the house and porch was splintered and pealing away from the wood that was way past it’s [...]
