The Many First Dates of Mia_Coffee Lover's Delight_The Encounter_Putting the Spooky Back in Spoo
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The Many First Dates of Mia
Owen rubbed the hair pomade to a warm slickness between his fingers before touching up the style. This beeswax stuff smelled quite nice— a stark improvement from the fat and lard-based goop he’d been using last century. His hands were shaking a bit from the nerves. It was an important night, but mostly he was looking forward to seeing her. He wondered what she would be like. Would she be as chatty as the others? Would she like him? Would she like his hair this way? He picked up the images of his long life again, yellowing photographs and cameos mixed in with hand-painted portraits. He was dete...
Coffee Lover's Delight
Are you there, God? Its me, the girl who was stupid enough to spill an entire iced macchiato on herself right before her job interview.Amber stared at the empty cup that lay in front of her. One moment she had been struggling to get the lid off some she could add in a few packets of splenda, and the next the lid had blown off and the coffee inside drenched itself all over her. She was sitting at a table in the middle of a café and had just publiclwww.onedoor.ccy embarrassed herself in front of all the morning-goers who had come in for coffee and tea.For a couple of seconds she sat there motionless, and then...
The Encounter
"Are you there, God? It's me, Joe!"“Hey, Joe. What’s up?”Joe sat frozen in his seat for a few seconds or it may have been minutes. Then he turned around and looked at the back seat of his car which he quickly realized was foolish. Of course, he was alone! He was headed home from his office, alone, the same as every day.He’d got stuck in traffic which seemed to be moving slower than usual because of an accident or something up ahead - he could see the red and blue lights flashing a few miles ahead.The weather was cold, the car heater was broken and so was the car stereo.After about an hour of m...
Putting the Spooky Back in Spooky Season
Put the Spooky Back in Spooky Season An Open Letter to Gen Z“Spooky season,” as you people call it, is in full swing. It seems that for you, this mostly means the return of the “PSL,” which I assume stands for something like “Pumpkin and Sweater Life,” as it makes far more sense than the vegetable-coffee drink the tricksters outside Starbucks described. I ask you, tricksters, to please pull out Instagram and just try to scroll without coming across a picture of people in sweaters holding pumpkins. That’s what I thought. I write to you now, as a generation, to show you that there is so much mor...