The Terrors of Online Dating
“I officially, officially, officially, – How many officiallys am I at now?,” she would habitually ask her best friends, “GIVE UP!” Gigi threw down her iPhone in disgust. Things were so much easier when Gigi was younger, before the divorce, before the teenage children, before being in her 40’s, before the [...]
Chapter 4
So how do you go about searching for your long-lost grandmother? Most people should know where their grandmothers are, should know where to go when they need to be loved or spoiled, but I did not. Most people could ask a father or mother about their fathers or mothers, but I could not. I [...]
We headed back to the main part of the yard, and I had the odd sensation that I was a movie camera being rolled forward into the midst of the party-goers. Elektra had her arm in mine, and it felt as if she were guiding me along.
“How’re you doing, lover?” she asked me.
“Okay,” I said.
Just [...]
In New York City, flocks of pigeons met for their own mass in front of the steps of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on the city’s most fashionable thoroughfare. These were blue and grey birds whose necks in the bright sunlight had a pink iridescence it would be difficult to render in paint on canvas. The occasional [...]
“The journalist concerns himself with facts,” writes Dr. Anne Frank Koestler in 1964. “The seeking out and careful recreation of each fact is of vital concern to him. But the arrangement of the facts into a more than two -dimensional reproduction is not his concern. This is because he is a maker of accurate two dimensional reproductions, [...]
Chapter 3
The years went by in a blur. I wasn’t really living them, after all.
I went to Harding, of course. It was expected and affordable, though my grades could probably have carried me many other places. I lived at home, of course, though my parents tried to make the offer of staying there seem negotiable. [...]
Elektra had taken another drag from the reefer and passed it on to Sammy.
“Steve,” she said, “you are too much, man.”
“I beg your pardon,” he said. I noticed he was holding a bottle of beer. But at least it was only beer. He didn’t seem drunk at all. Not yet. “But Alicia –”
“Elektra,” she said.
“Elektra, [...]
With Balance Due
Two years later. Dave and Margo were in California. I had been working in a convenience store ever since the waterbed business sprang a leak. Julia got me the job.
“Official use only,” was highlighted in red on the mail I received.
The return address: Internal Revenue Service.
I licked the paper cut I received rifling [...]
It was all very interesting chatting with Frank Sinatra, I suppose, but to tell the truth I was getting hungry, so I was glad when Dick came over and told us he had a brand-new batch of burgers ready to go.
Elektra and I excused ourselves from Frank and went over to the charcoal grill with [...]
After a drive to Bonn, Hitler had flown to Munich late on Friday the 29th, and he arrived at nearly four a.m. on Saturday, twelve hours before the anticipated ‘coup.’ He let Ernst Roehm slept in the Pension Hanselbauer at Bad Wiesse, a Bavarian gingerbread house on the Tehernsee Lake. Indeed, many in the Stormtroop [...]
