Litter Duty
I hate cleaning up after teenagers. It’s the worst part of the job. There’s a special sort of sociopathy the unformed teen mind exhibits…
I hate cleaning up after teenagers. It’s the worst part of the job. There’s a special sort of sociopathy the unformed teen mind exhibits…
You could be forgiven for thinking the greeting card industry is dying. You’d be wrong. The invention of email promised to kill the postal…
Hazel Petti was the bane of our existence. By “ours”, I don’t just mean the students at Clara Perkins Elementary School. Everyone in town…
The city trains you to not notice things. I mean, you’ve seen the hobos, the hookers, the lunatics having entire conversations with empty space……
Note: For legal purposes, I’m changing the names of not only people, but companies for reasons that’ll be obvious by the end of the…
Cemeteries aren’t really scary at night. When you’re a kid, every tombstone has a dark spirit behind it. Every burial plot has a vengeful…
Listen… I didn’t exactly apply to be the middleman for a malevolent, nonexistent software company. Who would? I’m not a gamer, a collector, or…
I used to go hiking to clear my mind. It was nothing extraordinary. No backpack, no walking stick, no geo-locator app on my phone…
Ralph was a prankster. I don’t think you can avoid becoming one if your name is “Ralph”. His parents cursed him at birth, ensuring…
I stood on the rain-slicked doorstep of a refurbished two-story house just outside of the city. I looked at the take-out order in my…