Valium & Vodka: Chapter One
Reid Travis rolled half-asleep into the parking lot of his apartment complex in a dated Chevrolet pickup truck just before five AM. Roads, cars, and buildings warped around him in his drunken haze. In the morning, he would admonish himself for...
A Dish Best Served Cold
"Got anywhere else you have to be tonight?" It had been a good dinner, not just in the quality of the food, but also in that of the conversation that accompanied it. Mr. Schuler's outward appearance was betrayed by his affable personality and his...
A Stitch in Time
If there was one thing that irked Ewan Rickard, it was a rider who neglected to maintain their equipment. For several, biking was merely a hobby. An occasional dalliance upon which to spend a Sunday afternoon. He couldn't blame them though; most of...
This Charming Klee Kai
A fox trudged up the hillside with his bicycle beside him, the mode of transportation rendered useless by some sod's careless littering. A broken glass bottle. A nail, maybe. Whatever it was, he cursed its existence as he watched the flattened rubber...
Not Much for Portraits
A fox leaped over a felled oak tree in pursuit of his evening meal; a white rabbit. Mother Nature's wall-to-wall carpeting- a thick blanket woven of leaves and pine needles covered the forest floor beneath the sprightly paws. Trees stood rooted to...
An Ounce of Prevention
The crosses borne by the two-wheeled outdoorsman were two in number. One was sand and the lack of traction that accompanies it. Second was the confusion amongst the title held by those who enjoyed the sport of mountain biking. Those who preferred their...
Not Much for Dogs
A casualty of fine art and sex appeal lay in wait for its perpetrator to return to the scene of the crime. Crimson red lay staining the white sheets inferior to it, smeared like cirrus clouds across the cloth, joined by the blood split of prior...
Chelsea
Machine gun fire chattered in the distance, each rapidly succeeding sonic boom of a round fired from an RPK dying out in the rolling hills of Afghanistan's Korengal Valley; one of the deadliest locations in the country. This was the soundtrack to...