Fiction
Memories Back Then
The journey back there was magical. We sat on adjacent seats in the matatu chatting away spiritedly, oblivious of the other passengers. There was no better feeling than having her beside me laughing, reminiscing on childhood memories of the place we were headed to. There was no better feeling than seeing the glint of anticipation […]
A Working Man And A Working Fool
It’s hot as balls, and we’re pickin’ weeds like some dumb shits gettin’ out last night’s dinner from our front teeth.
A Childhood Friend Contacted Me Out of the Blue and the Reason Why Will Horrify You – Part II
Looking back, it all kicked off because I’d had a shit night. Josh and I had somehow regressed to basic, functional communication via text. How you? – Yeah alright. U? – that kind of thing. It was upsetting, so naturally instead of confronting my problems I’d stayed up all night drinking screwdrivers. I woke up […]
HARRUMPH!
“Have you ever been published? I asked Feliz. We were at a used book store on a side street near Market 24 in Cancun. Feliz was looking through the shelves for a book by Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa, “The Book of Disquiet.” It was on his list of top 100 books ever written. He had […]
Nice to meet you,Mr.Half-Vampire
Chapter 1 Do you believe that there are wizards in the world?I can tell you that I believe it.More than that,I am a wizard,actually,a witch. Do you believe that there are some vampires around you?Before last year,I didn’t believe this at all.You know, Although the textbook of Magic School tells us that the vampire is […]
A Childhood Friend Contacted Me Out of the Blue and the Reason Why Will Horrify You – Part I
Two crazy things happened to me last year. Firstly, after years of procrastination, I decided to finally to pursue my dream of authoring a novel in the young adult/supernatural fantasy genre (for brevity, let’s just say something along the lines of Harry Potter, or Twilight if it didn’t completely blow). Up to this point, I’d […]
The Highway Part I.
Every day for the last eight months, I’ve walked down the highway after dark. I find that, amonst other things, it helps clear my head after a soul-crushing day of data entry and meaningless office chatter. Now it’s become so much part of my routine that every day after I leave work I feel a […]
The Office Christmas Party (1978)
Knees to be patted, palpable lascivious tension and buckets of disinfected sawdust at the ready in the boiler room…