A place to waste some time

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The CIA

It was around 3:00 AM on Saturday September 22, 2001, My oldest brother, Phil, and I were sitting in his living room waiting for the cancer to take him.

He was 56.

My Reputation…

He started it.

On a sunny August morning in Paris at the French offices of a multinational corporate octopus I unknowingly brought a gun to a knife fight.

Lupe

One Sunday evening in October of 1981 I wobbled up to the baggage claim at the international airport in São Paulo, Brazil, wondering whether the previous 26 hours had been a nightmare or a fantasy.

Midlife Crisis

In the early 2000’s I was 53 and leaving middle age.  I was wondering what’s next when some nasty questions popped up.  Like.  Have I accomplished anything worthwhile? What’s next?  How much hair can I grow from my ears, nose and eyebrows?  Do those ED drugs really work?

The Three Norns

On the day Niles first opened the workroom door, the three Norns cast his fate.

The Barn

To Niles the one hundred and forty year old barn was a corner of heaven.

The Gremlin – A Reading

Here’s a video of me reading a story in February 2020 before Covid brought the world to its knees.

Burying a Monk

At the first funeral I ever attended I ended up in the grave.

Jon

Jon, a tough old bird from Iceland, woke up at 5:30 every morning without the benefit of an alarm clock.  

Liar Liar – Pants on Fire

Forgive me, I’m an accountant.  It’s a problem that the therapy and
drugs have failed to cure.

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