Coming of Age in the Early 1970s: Strikingly Familiar; Deliciously Different — This is Part 37 << Back to Part 1 “Never trust nobody,” said Skinner, topping up his beer glass from a fresh bottle of Double Diamond. “Never trust nobody. That’s my motto now.” It was the worst Christmas that Vonnie could remember — not because of the new rules, which…

Chapter 1, Part 1 July 2015 Dana Dana wiped beads of sweat off her brow as she finished making the bed. Sweat dampened the cotton t-shirt she wore and trickled down her back, tickling her sticky skin. She glanced down at her watch and breathed out a sigh of relief…

American Kingdom: Chapter 1.3 — Previous scene: Sumter Special American Kingdom: Day 1.2medium.com Down to The Battery, very Charleston, some of the finest townhouses in the South lined up, angled to catch the breeze, shutters all the same shade of deep green, heavy guns once aimed at Fort Sumter, now things for kiddies to climb on. Up Meeting Street, a couple…

A fiction series — If you haven’t read the first segment of this series and would like to, you can find it here before getting started on part two. “How bad can it possibly be, Jay?” Jay scoffed but stayed silent, not even glancing at his best friend in the passenger seat. “You know…

When night had well and truly fallen and his grandmother was tucked neatly — and with the help of three family members, God bless them — into her bedroom and the rest of his family asleep, he decided on a drive. It would have to be in his mother’s BMW…

(Story 1) Stories from a beach bar vortex in the 1980s. (The Mailbox) — “You okay,” Janie asks as she clunks a Miller draft mug down in front of Henry. He is looking rough. It’s a bright sunny day, but the inside of the bar is a dark hole. It sucks the early afternoon diehard drinkers inside like a swirling vortex. Some of them…