Intoxicate Me

“What am I going to do? Stage an intervention for the fucker? I don’t know him well enough to care and he hasn’t given me reason to give two shits about his marriage or his efforts to become a human ship in a bottle.”
“I think he does want an intervention,” Nancy told Trace. “Remember when [...]

Bill’s Bottle

Some people who treat life like a dangerous and reckless adventure, it is said, have a bullet with their name written on it. Until the day I was summoned from the void and assigned my mission I always dismissed the bullet notion as a tired and over shopped metaphor because when you think about it [...]

Sixty Percent

“No matter where we go, all you want to do is find a bar and drink,” Viv complained. It was three o’clock in the afternoon on a rainy Saturday. They were perched on stools at the downstairs bar of the old Union Hotel in Benicia. It was supposed to be a short weekend getaway, a [...]

Moby Dick in Outer Space

“I saw a coyote in the backyard.”
“When?”
“Just now. I was looking out the kitchen window. Why do we have ceramic tiles in here? My feet get cold.”
“Wear your slippers, silly.”
“I hate slippers. And I would much rather have hardwood floors.”
“The house came with tiles, Richard. We’ve been living here for ten years and this is [...]