Marmaduke Dittman_Eventful Days in the Condo Spa_The Package_Confession Blues
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Marmaduke Dittman
My name is Marmaduke Dittman. Or Marmy for short. Mum (she calls herself that) tells all her friends that I have a pedigree as long as your arm and my pedigree name is Marmaduke Dittman.Mum doesn’t know where the Dittman bit comes in. She says it’s something to do with a prefix or a suffix or something like that. But the Marmaduke bit is because I’m orange. They call me orange with orange eyes, but really I’m ginger, just like the cat next door that often tries to pick a fight with me.Mum shows her friends the enormous sheet of paper that has my pedigree on it. Hundreds of names and dates. My ...
Eventful Days in the Condo Spa
My wife and I had finally succumbed to the idea of spending a couple of the winter months in Florida as “refugees” from the ice and snow of the Midwest. We rented a unit at the Surf and Sail condominium complex in Longboat Key just north of Sarasota.On the first afternoon of our extended visit, I headed for the spa next to the swimming pool for a thirty-minute soak in the warm, bubbling water. My goal was to relax and wile away the time in the sun.Florida is called “God’s waiting room” for good reason. The spa’s daily visitors consisted of a small group of men in their 70’s and 80’s, often cha...
The Package
There’s a package outside with my name on it.What would you like me to do?I don’t know what number this is. I just dialed. I dialed until somebody picked up. You picked me. What would you like me to do?Can you help me?I’m sorry, but I’m not used to the phone. I don’t trust it. I don’t trust phones. Communication can be very tricky. I wouldn’t even be calling, but this is an unusual circumstance.The package is just sitting there. Somebody should pick it up.I can’t pick it up. I have been told--taught--told not to pick up strange packages. Strange boxes. Things that have my name on them, but tha...
Confession Blues
This story contains adult themes of sexual acts.She threw her head back dramatically, a visual indicator to no one in the government filing cabinet attemptiwww.onedoor.ccng to pass as an office, of the game of fourth dimensional chess being played in her mind. Every question and every possible answer had been considered. They call it game theory; she read a few articles about it. Moves and countermoves. The degeneracy is way more prevalent than you'd think. Only the most skilled interrogators are able to bring it to light. Johnson got seven. Knoll's at five. Hell, even Romano got one, and he's got shit for ...