Our Miniature Hobby Lifestyle
One day a friend of mine came over to visit. He introduced me to a cigar. My first reaction was “oh no, bad.” Hiss-hiss. Then realizing that just one puff wouldn’t hurt, but a single lung cell; I tried it. Finished it, really. Very few things that I’ve consumed can elevate my mood, yet this …
On a coffee break, partaking in two of my favorite activities: consuming and spewing. Here’s my afternoon spew…. This is a precious…sss moment. A punctate lot of time in this short lifespan. In the words of the wise fictional character, Bilbo Baggins (the most famous of Hobbit-sss), I’m preemptively avoiding being “…butter scraped over too …
I wrote this short story (circa 2003) as an exercise in writing conversational dialog. It was practice, written quickly to finish it. It’s a quick read, a bit clunky, but I haven’t pushed the editing too far so I could retain the draft as a reference for me to see how far I’ve come as …