I gathered up all the campaign signs like I was supposed to.
“I gathered up all the campaign signs like I was supposed to.” Tank knocked on the back door of the cafe. It was just after closing, but Tank was scared of Angie seeing him. Curly verified his fears....
View ArticleRural Cooperative Development Grants
“Rural Cooperative Development Grants (RCDG),” Tank read the title of the application out loud. Everything he read sounded like pure confusion to him: “NOTICE: This template is provided to assist you...
View ArticleSince you decided to bury Crazy Eddie all proper-like, I’m considerin’ you...
“Since you decided to bury Crazy Eddie all proper-like, I’m considerin’ you his next of kin.” Roscoe, Moe and Samson were at Mt. Zen Cafe. They had gone over the assignments, but last week, Moe had...
View ArticleWhat are you going to do with it?
“What are you going to do with it?” Kit Kat looked at the dilapidated fifth wheel haphazardly parked behind her parents’ house, no, Samson’s house. He answered, putting his hands on his hips, “I have...
View ArticleThis is a REALLY good couch
“This is a REALLY good couch,” Kit Kat said to Samson. She was at his home in the frou frou room. Of course, Samson had just normal furniture in there with a big screen television and every console...
View ArticleThey call her kid ‘half-breed.’
“They call her kid ‘half-breed.’” Samson was reading Crazy Eddie’s journals. He had gone to Vietnam and come back, still living at his mother’s house. It was obvious he was dealing with PTSD, but there...
View ArticleIt’s the day after Christmas, what do you want?
“It’s the day after Christmas, what do you want?” Tank was at A.S.’s door, dressed in clean jeans and a collared golf shirt. His hair was perfectly clipped, instead of clipper-shorn by his grandma in...
View ArticleWhat’re ya doin’?
“What’re ya doin’?” James hadn’t been able to find John in the house, so he went searching outside. Right in the middle of the cornfield where they always cut the corn maze, John was playing in the...
View ArticleYou shoulda volunteered
“You shoulda volunteered,” Curly didn’t know how to tell Angie what he heard in the cafe today, but it was obvious that she hadn’t heard what he had heard. Angie just shrugged him off as she balanced...
View ArticleDamn passwords
“Damn passwords,” the officer looked at the cell phone that he found on the body four days ago. Both it and the laptop in the trailer, if you could call it that, were locked down with passwords. He...
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