Bad day

After a hard day at work, and her boyfriend Alex breaking up with her, Julia decided she would head to the bar. First she had to find out if her parents were sleeping. Usually around[…]

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Bar snack

When I was 35, I lived right on Venice Beach in Los Angeles, overlooking Muscle Beach and the White Men Can’t Jump basketball courts. My neighborhood was a frequent location for movies, and for television[…]

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Hot box

This is a kind of preamble to a story line I have been thinking about. It is loosely based on some real people I knew back in college and some of their exploits. If you[…]

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Watching elena

While taking care of the orange groves for a rancher in Visalia, California, I was always running into weird things in the orange groves. Sometimes I'd find evidence of hastily removed drug labs, remnants of[…]

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Sonya' siren song

It was late summer, on a Friday afternoon, after a long week, as I turned into my driveway, and there was Sonya, playing a solo game of basketball with the hoop over the garage door.[…]

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Phoenix ch 08

“Wow! This isn’t a Ranger Station,” Tanya said with some awe in her voice. “This is a god-damn /> the ranger said, “the original owner was a movie mogul who had it built some fifty[…]

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Summer of sex

"Lunch time!" Matt one of the counselors called. All of the juniors and intermediates ran into party room one for lunch. Tina and Erin checked their lunches to make sure no one had peanut butter,[…]

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