Cum to Taz-mania
It was true, what they say about the sky always being yellow in rain or shine. At least, over here. Just like New Zealand is always green and hilly, and Australia is always...er...Outbacky. So, not a complete truth, more of a convenient truth. Of...
Parent-Teacher Conference
I sat on the ottoman, trying not to sulk. Dad sat on one side of our big couch (the Fucking Couch, he calls it, though you could add "Fucking" to any piece of furniture in our house and it would likely be accurate). My sixth-grade teacher Mr. Corneil...
"Raddlepated," Will of the Alpha 2 Teaser
_Olan Chennock sat in a dark corner booth of Aerach's Public House & Inn, and waited._ _An unread copy of the Londonderry Sentinel lay before him on the table, folded as it had come from the dispenser outside the pub's heavy oaken doors with their...
Two Caballeros. Two Gay Caballeros.
"Tell me, Panchito," asked the parrot while lazily swirling his margarita. "Have you ever been to Baía?" He licked a bit of salt from the rim and chased it with a long draw on his straw. After a few rounds he'd decided to just buy the bottle and mix...
Carpe Diem, Carpe Pater 2: Reciprocity
I once read an article about how technology is doing more to keep us apart even as we think it's bringing us together. I mean, it's nice when some celebrity or politician makes a gaffe (which is bullshit; their truth slips out and then they backpedal)...
The Goad, the Bat, and the Unctuous
The Goad, the Bat and the Unctuous \*\* As soon as he stepped out of his beachside hotel room, Patrick knew he shouldn't have skimped on his rented tuxedo. Instead of patronizing a specialty shop for molting species, which stocked light linens and...
You Never Open Up to Me Anymore
"And if we were still married, that would mean something," I said as Dane and I turned into the driveway of the little cottage I like to call the Ball and Chain. Mostly because I don't have one anymore He'd just asked me what his mother would think...
Fun with Bedtime Hygiene
Walter looked up from his book to cast a surreptitious glance at his two charges for the evening, roughhousing just feet away. Hector and Kody, his little red panda friend, wrestled in just their undies--briefs on the coyolf and a jock on...