The Long Walk Back Home, Chapter Nine
Chris left the Olsen house and drove straight to Mercy Hospital. The doctor at the hospital’s Emergency Room mercifully numbed Chris’ head as soon as he saw the red and ragged tear stitched together...
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“Well, you always did know how to get yourself into a world of trouble and then back out of it!” Sonny Russinko shook his head in admiration as Chris told him what had happened in the week since he...
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Chris stopped in the middle of the road and looked from there at the property. There was nothing to indicate that Calvin’s uncle or anyone else was home, and Chris took what was his first good look...
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Chris, Calvin and Sonny were on Interstate 8 headed east the next morning. Calvin attended an early mass and wasted no time in picking up the other two. “I’m dying to get my own wheels on the road”...
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Two days later Chris, Pam and Calvin were sitting at a table at the Spice Rack, a popular restaurant in Pacific Beach. Jackie was expected to join them momentarily after getting off of work. Chris...
View ArticleAchieving The Dream
I have wanted to be a writer for almost as many years as I can remember. Now, at long last, I believe that I can lay claim to having succeeded in that long-held dream. Amazon promises me that on...
View ArticleJust Another Morning In Paradise
This morning I sat down in my chair and wrote out all of the things that I intended to get done today. Drive to Sellwood and pick up supplements from my naturopath, return to Vancouver for a massage,...
View ArticleBAM!
“Aw, crud. Here comes Willie.” Enzo Acosta was looking out through the window of the Central Avenue Recreation Center office where he was seated with Clyde Bartow, Brian Cortner and the new Assistant...
View ArticlePURPLE HEART
PURPLE HEART It was 9:45 in the evening and nearly time for the Enlisted Men’s Club to close. Almost two dozen boisterous soldiers of the 537th Company, 63rd Battalion of the Eleventh Transportation...
View ArticleOne Eyed Jack Re-Do
In the fall of 1972 I was fortunate enough to begin my junior year of college at Sonoma State College, now Sonoma State University, in the town of Cotati, California. Cotati was a wide spot in U.S....
View ArticleREUNION
Bert Laver climbed the last one hundred feet of the way to his destination almost on hands and knees. The place where he was going to was no more than four thousand feet above sea level, but he was...
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Bert Laver climbed the last one hundred feet of the way to his destination almost on hands and knees. The place where he was going to was no more than four thousand feet above sea level, but he was...
View ArticleFINDING OUR WAY
FINDING OUR WAY “Here we are,” Larry said as he steered his Plymouth station wagon into the parking lot. “Where in the heck is here?” Willy asked. “Lake Merwin. It’s part of a series of reservoirs...
View ArticleA Question of War and Peace, Chapter 1
I met Jake Cross in an apartment in Rohnert Park, California, in September of 1975. I had finished my second year and Mira Costa Community College in Southern California and was beginning my junior...
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The first month of the new semester passed quickly for me. I enjoyed the social life of the apartments and the school, and I was challenged by the difficulty of several of my subjects from almost the...
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Chapter 5 “Hah!,” Jake said as he tossed another pebble. “Do you want the long version, or the short?” “Let’s start with the short version,” I replied. “Just the nouns and verbs. We’ll get to the...
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CHAPTER 3 As the month of October proceeded we dwellers of the two apartment buildings settled down into our own unique rhythms. Some units were all party, all of the time. Other units housed serious...
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CHAPTER 4 Jake stepped past Paul and began to walk toward where Dee Dee and I stood. The look on his face was unlike anything that I have ever seen before or since. It was without expression; stolid,...
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