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 …
After the 2016 election, I gave George Orwell a shot. I had read 1984 in college for my own enjoyment during the Bush administration to feel like a good liberal. But I did not remember too much about it. But when I tried to read it in early 2017, I could not get past the …
When I met Brian, he really enjoyed the show Game of Thrones. And he wanted to get me to like it. I failed spectacularly. I would ask too many questions. Nothing made any sense. And I did not like the characters that they told me to like. In fact, I compared it to All My Children as we finished …