A Plate of Happiness
I WAS ONLY THERE for lunch but when I saw her for the first time, I knew there was a higher purpose. She was wearing what all the other waitresses were, a pair of black slacks grayed from too many washings with a white dress shirt and pair of black shoes. ...
Don’t Use The Kleenex
(They're for company) MY DAD. What a character. He was full of these little gems of wisdom when I was growing up. Hold a door open and you get … What are you trying to do, heat the outside? Or its summer counterpart, You trying...
The Cat
from an unpublished collection, Fireside Tales of Jamestown -------An homage to the king of horror, Edgar Allen Poe------- I HAD A CAT ONCE, when I was young. It was black as a moonless night in the country with snow white paws. Sometimes, in the...
Monkeys Pushing Buttons
WILLIAM JOHNSTON AWOKE Friday morning a different man. He didn't know it yet which made it all the more surprising to him. But he'd figure it out, in time. That's the way it always works. The first thing he did that...
Sis
Growing up with my sis, we fought and fought. Much more than we should've, much more than we ought. Competition between us was always so fierce, So on we would fight for years and years. I was much older but none did it matter, When it came to my sis, it just made her...
What I Fear Most, Looking Forward
I look forward to the chicken noodle soup, The bedtime stories causing eyes to droop. Their laughter will fill the house with such joy, I want one of each, a girl and a boy. I look forward to their little baby talk, The crawling, the giggling, the eating of chalk. The...
We’ve Been To Savannah
I was talking with my Mom and Dad the other day and I asked if they'd been to Savannah yet. My Mom said they hadn't and my Dad spoke up kind of snippy, saying, "We've been to Savannah." River Street in SavannahThis is a normal conversation...
The Robbery
Okay, here's the deal: My office was broken into over the 4th of July holiday. My computer, my brand new Dell computer, was stolen along with all my personal stuff on it. Thank God I had made backups 1 week ago so most everything can be...
Analyze My Dream
I had a dream last night, of a girl. A girl I'd had a crush on since elementary school. We all have that girl (or guy), the one we noticed in first grade, the one we've always had a sweet spot for, the one we bought jewelry for when we went to her 9th...
Typing In All CAPPS
Hey .. at least the title is clever.