Marielito’s in the Midwest I was 16 years old when I met Marielito, and had recently moved back in with my mother because I couldn’t handle my stepfather’s idea of rules and guidelines. I was used to running wild and doing whatever I wished because my mother was more interested in her weird relationships with her various and assorted ex-convict/drug addicted boyfriends. At the time Mom was with her boyfriend…
Last night I was walking my dog right around the corner from my house. My dog spotted another dog and wanted to sniff it or whatever dogs like to do to each other. This particular dog happened to be in a yard with a fence around it. The other dog walked up to the fence and then my dog walked up to the fence for the whole “sniff” game to…
After Grandma died, everybody in the family went haywire. I never realized that Mom wasn’t really around that much, because I loved Grandma so much that it didn’t matter to me one way or another. Aunt G started drinking really bad. Aunt Mary started shooting Heroine. My favorite cousin Velt became a pimp. And me, well I guess I was left to the wolves. Mom got heavy into the church.…
It was Saturday morning during the summer and I had just finished putting the rubber bands around all of the newspapers I had to deliver on my paper-route. I shoved the newspapers into my big canvas pouch that read “Columbus Dispatch” in big neon orange colors and headed out the door. My dogs, Lady and Muttly stood right by the door dancing and prancing around. They loved accompanying me on…
I was in the Army for a short time. While I was in basic training at least 5 privates under the age of 21 either died or committed suicide. Two of them collapsed from being pushed too hard to run and just keeled over. One stabbed himself by ramming a pencil up into his nasal passage. Another hung himself with a shoe string and I forgot how the other died.…
I was sitting in my cubicle clicking away on my dusty old keyboard when the thought of how much I hated my job ran through my head one more time. Every morning when my alarm went off I continued to press the snooze button at least six times before I crawled out of bed. The thought of sitting in a confined area inside a cold building with no windows and…
