In 2017, a retired fighter pilot put out an ad that got the entire liberal community excited for a competitive House seat in Kentucky. Signs were up in our neighborhoods. People were working for her campaign. But then she lost by 10,000 votes. She then ran against Mitch McConnell, collecting even more money, and losing …
At 4 o’clock in the morning, we sat in the parking lot of MedVet as a man, who just finished peeing ten feet from us, started flicking a fly-fishing reel back and forth. Brian and I had no idea what was going on, what to do, or what was going to happen. We had spent …
I didn’t know a lot about music before I got to college. I listened to Oldies 104.3 on the Chicago airwaves and had a bunch of cassette tapes that I copied from the library. The only Broadyway related tape I had was Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and can still sing just about every …
A piece of short fiction – based on a prompt to examine place, setting, and story. The meeting ended and I took off my peadset. I learned back into my chair, looking at the clock. I had a few minutes before my next call. With a quick turn, I prepared to stand up out of …