The First Date (or, The Bouquet of a Dozen Mistakes)_So It Goes_Breakout 2、0_Bernard (The Saint’s) 2
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The First Date (or, The Bouquet of a Dozen Mistakes)
In my defense, it had been six years since I had been on a date. Yes, you read that part right. Six. Long. Years. And yes, you read the next part right, too. Not “in a relationship”, but “on a date.” If you haven’t already guessed, my “in a relationship” time chasm was even wider.It’s not the sort of thing you want to put on your dating profile, you know? Tall and slender, early thirties. Likes working out. Dog person. Has been 2,193 days since any meaningful contact with the opposite sex.Lucas and I had messaged each other on an online dating app over the past several days, and tonight would ...
So It Goes
Jeremy peddled down long dark country roads illuminated only by the light of a cell phone strapped to the front of his bicycle. This last year had been the worst in his life. It began with a layoff from his job in the spring sending him into a mountain of debt and by the end of the summer, he lost custody of his daughter, Maddie. His tiny bachelor apartment was bare bones dawning only a small flat-screen TV, a dirty mattress on the floor, and a growing stack of unpaid bills on the kitchen counter. On top of that, the creditors were relentless, calling him at all hours of the day and night unti...
Breakout 2、0
Slinging low over the trees, the Bell V-s80 Valor helicopter angles in, a lethal locust descending in a joyless moon. Rotors tilting to hover configuration, she banks into the landing strip. General Huxley Longfellow, in fatigues, steps to the tarmac and salutes the two aids on the ground. Running low, they dash to a Quonset hut a hundred yards away. As they enter thwww.onedoor.cce room twenty men stand to attention while four civilians huddle at the end of a long conference table. The general, after a lifetime in the military, recognizes when tension is high. “At ease gentlemen,” he says. “Director Cavalli...
Bernard (The Saint’s) 2023 New Year's Resolutions
1、 Worry about feeling good, not about being thinner.You are not the number on Dr. Collie, the vet’s, scale. You are done with obsessing over what the “normal” weight is for your breed and are going to focus on what the “normal” weight is for your soul.2、 Stop gossiping about other dogs.Just because Lucky, the Doberman next door, may or may not have ruined Mrs. Robbin’s flower bushes, it’s not your business. Don't be that dog. Spread positivity only.3、 Give one compliment a day to a human.You like the smell of Annabelle’s new boyfriend’s crotch? Give it a good sniff and let him kno...