So my husband ordered dirt. A lot of dirt. I’m told it’s “four cubic yards” of dirt. Which is much more than you think it is. Here’s a video I found that proves that: A dump truck just like this dumped this amount of dirt on my driveway (but this is not my driveway). He…
Fifteen-year-old Joey Franks considered himself a communist. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” That’s what Karl Marx wrote. Joey didn’t know that, of course. He hadn’t actually read any Marx. All he knew was that he didn’t want to live like his dad, shackled to his desk in the…
It was only a matter of time. Gerald made himself as small as possible in the corner. The witch was trying to fatten him up for sure. He’d read all about that in a book. Five times a day or more, she gave him a plastic spoon heaped high with peanut butter. He ate the…
Becky never took her eyes off her phone from the time they left her house til they flopped into their seats on the Greyhound. They had a 40-minute ride into the city, and Roger tried to talk to her a few times. The usual stuff. He asked her how school was going, if she had…
Nolan Hendricks III was a rising star. Everyone said so. Born and raised in America’s heartland, he had the good breeding of John Kennedy, the charm of Bill Clinton, and the grass-roots political savvy of Barack Obama. Hendricks raised $300,000 in the first few days of his campaign, mostly from small donors. He appealed to…
Bella rarely did as she was told. She was a cat, after all. The children saw her as a plaything. They couldn’t stop themselves from picking her up and parading her around the house, or putting her in doll’s clothes. Bella was de-clawed before the family adopted her, so she couldn’t really fight back, which…
Things were blowing up all around them. The old Shig road, known among the tactical drivers of the Delta base motor pool as the Oh Shit Road, was a well-traveled and oft booby-trapped route across the desert and into the mountains. It was strategically significant because it led right into the mouth of the beast…
Aisaak Olver held one arm in front of her face as she marched across the desert. The wind pushed her back almost as hard as she pushed forward. The sheer fabric hanging from her slender arm kept the sand out of her mouth and nose – mostly. Seeing for any distance was out of the…
Turnout was not as big as expected at the “Something Old, Something New” wedding flea market at the Baltimore Convention Center. This was due, in no small part, to the surprise late-winter snowstorm that had blanketed the city just a few days before. It wasn’t a blizzard – Baltimore gets its fair share of those…
When I was little I used to go crazy whenever the doorbell rang. I was just a young kid with a lot of pent up energy who thought he knew everything. Maybe there was a time you felt that way too? In the beginning, my pack seemed to like it when I barked and growled…