Before I am Famous

literature is something we infer after the story is told

Raw Sex

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The night was cold. They sweated nervously as they waited for the others. Dinner, drinks, laughter and flirting flowed between the four. It was his idea but she thought about it before, the first time, the excitement of touch disappeared from their memories.
What is the difference between love and sex? Only [...]

Pink Slip

Tuesday, middle of the month, food stamp day. A broad as big as a bull cuts me in line, hands full with nothing but ice cream sandwiches. With her pudgy face and her dumb way of way talking she tells me she was here first.
Being a nice guy, I don’t start anything especially in public. [...]

Where Are All the Children?

A playground stocked with sliding boards with different lengths and colors and rows of empty swings with only the light wind to move them. A playground stocked with a multi colored merry-go-round with echos of “make it go faster.”
On a beautiful day, the playground is not stocked with laughter, secrets or children and [...]

Postulations

Tonight the still air reminded of childhood days. Happy? Sure I smiled a lot but anyone could smile all it takes is brain power. I climbed the iron stairs of my apartment building, rusting and narrow stairs that looked like they were ripped from a dead useless lighthouse, and pushed open the wooden door to [...]

Two Brothers. One House. And a Graveyard

A perfect family in the faded Polaroids, one father, one mother and a pair of brothers. Years come and go and the father died in his sleep and mother followed in his footsteps only months later. The death of their parents, left the family homestead to Paul and Robert.
Both wanted control of the house [...]

Love’s Hand Forevermore

Beth, old and gray lay her head on the pillow and dreamed her favorite memory.
At Charlie’s store back before the war against the Nazis took its toll. Velda, Charlie’s daughter, played the radio. Glen Miller blasted through the tubes. John took Beth’s hand and swung her around without a care in the world. Love besieged [...]

Love’s Hand Forevermore

Beth, old and gray lay her head on the pillow and dreamed her favorite memory.
At Charlie’s store back before the war against the Nazis took its toll. Velda, Charlie’s daughter, played the radio. Glen Miller blasted through the tubes. John took Beth’s hand and swung her around without a care in the world. Love besieged [...]

Love’s Hand Forevermore

Beth, old and gray lay her head on the pillow and dreamed her favorite memory.
At Charlie’s store back before the war against the Nazis took its toll. Velda, Charlie’s daughter, played the radio. Glen Miller blasted through the tubes. John took Beth’s hand and swung her around without a care in the world. Love besieged [...]

At Any Cost for Fame

Two lovers, both writers, both wanted fame and glory for their words. Their relationship was tumultuous and when they decided they loved each other; they fucked like mad cats. Neither he nor she could live without another.
To support them, she worked and wrote at night. He toiled with his work incessantly. He was told he [...]