All Things Must Pass

Trace missed the toilet. He jerked the soiled gray sweatpants down around his ankles but before he could make contact with the cold porcelain bowl his aggrieved stomach opened up and spilled the murky contents of his bowels all over the white linoleum floor of the hotel bathroom.
It was three o’clock in the morning. [...]

Don’t Spend It All In One Place

“How are you going to ever get back to writing in this environment?” I was asked this evening.
Well, I started a new short story for posting here at Wonderland last Thursday but then the hammer came down with my disability benefits and I slumped further into the depths of manic depression and just pure, unadulterated [...]

The Other Shoe Drops

The “what can possibly go wrong next” gods took another shot at me last week and it was a good one, right between the eyes. Finger twitching in the trigger housing of their sniper’s rifles, they took steady aim and deftly fired. The resulting damage was a suspension of my Social Security Disability payments for [...]