Birthday Boy

My birthday wasn’t looking good. Now, I’m a strong believer in the idea that having a good birthday was my responsibility, but this year chips had been falling where they may and despite my usual optimism I didn’t see much to give me hope. My best friends were deserting me; Brian needed to go down […]

Shy Young Wife

Call me paranoid, or whatever you please, but my wife’s “volunteer work” was really about sex all along, and I knew it from the beginning. She went on about self- actualization and needing to “discover herself” and to do something about society’s problems. And I went along, reluctantly – unhappily. I knew this was really […]

Motel Suck

I was a maid in a large motel chain. It help to pay my tuition at Arizona State University. I had been with the company for a couple of years, and it didn’t pay well at all. They expected that their maids would make a lot in tips, which I did. Still, it was a […]

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