Someone gave me a ride home from work last week so I didn’t have to bike home in the rain. I said, “Thanks, but like really, thank you.” Then I spent the rest of the night fantasizing about me getting rich and famous and paying him back 100 fold. ——- Have you ever had a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘dog’
Triple Shot.
Posted in Triple Shots, tagged bike, cooking, dog, dream, ellen, job on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Walking Rosabel.
Posted in short shorts, tagged books, childhood, dog, flowers, jeans, lawns, love, sidewalk, walk on July 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
He hadn’t remembered that he didn’t wear jogging pants that day on purpose, nor that the jeans he picked out to impress her were years old, and he had grown out of them. He hadn’t remembered the lyrics to her favorite love song that he had recopied for her by hand, listening to the song [...]
Not on my watch.
Posted in short shorts, tagged Alaska, café, chicken, crystal, dog, environment, escapism, genocide, moon, organic, salmon, sleep, sun, waterford on May 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A friend once told me that he preferred the moon, because compared with the sun, the moon was far more noble. He asked me if I agreed. I told him that maybe, but I’d rather just get rich and buy distant relatives fine china for wedding presents, that I saw a set of Waterford crystal wise men [...]
Friday Night. Pont St. Michel.
Posted in favorites, short shorts, tagged dog, exile, notre dame, paris, pont st michel, shivering on March 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We had met through mutual friends. She asked me to show him around, that he had just gotten here. We walked around the Latin Quarter, saw Shakespeare and Company and he bought a chwarma sandwich near Notre Dame. By the St. Michel Fountain, the young philosopher got deep. “I’m an American in exile,” he says [...]
