Ray didn’t think about his last name too often, or how it might have colored the path he chose for… Read more Electric Fire Truck

Ray didn’t think about his last name too often, or how it might have colored the path he chose for… Read more Electric Fire Truck
As a house-sitter, Eleanor had stayed in her fair share of creepy homes. It went with the territory of her… Read more The Peeping Tom Who Wasn’t Really There (Or Was He?)
It was the perfect place for a failure to be. If you were going for irony, of course. Billed as… Read more Those Who Fail to Understand the Can’t Fail Café
When you thought about it, it really didn’t make sense. Who were all these people still actually chewing gum? Do you know… Read more Gumshoe
There are many dichotomies to living in California. Perhaps the greatest one is that it is a state which champions… Read more Fossil Fuel-Emitting Cunt Rag
She decided to keep the Christmas tree up late this year, well into January. Even though it was a drain… Read more Miss Havisham’s Christmas Tree
It was all done so rotely. Amy imagined not just for her family, but families across America as the pressure… Read more Christmas Don’t Live Here Anymore
She was doing all right. Well enough, anyway. Not working on “big” productions, but productions that were respectable. Olena Kostyshyn… Read more Go To Hollywood, They Said
Driving down the pastoral road rendered more “hick” than “quaint” by its population, Josefina remarked to her father, Raymundo (or… Read more Joan the New York Crone
It was unfathomable to think that anyone’s sense of loyalty to “Americana” could still be this strong. This…cartoonishly devoted. And… Read more Barbequing in a Fire