This is a 75 word story that was posted 3-21-19 by Richard on Paragraph Planet. A plastic bag in a shoe box, that’s how he ended up. A petty, mean spirited man his entire life, no one attended his funeral. I was stuck disposing of him. He lived in the desert and I was dumpingContinue reading “In A Plastic Bag In A Shoe Box”
Monthly Archives: March 2019
Storm Clouds
A small group of Minnesota’s criminally insane are housed in a gray, nondescript building on the outskirts of the town of Epps in the northwestern part of the state. It’s flatland soybean and corn fields up there, and I’m getting to know the area pretty well. It makes sense. I’ve been coming here every monthContinue reading “Storm Clouds”
Full Disclosure
I have to be honest. Growing up in the fifties my heroes were television cowboys who used guns and rifles to solve their problems. There was no such thing as reasoned discussion among those guys. No way. Got a problem? Let’s meet out in the street. Compromise? No one knew the meaning of the word.Continue reading “Full Disclosure”
The Coyote
It was a lazy Saturday morning in Brentwood Estates. Roland Hathaway sat in his silk bathrobe in the family room, reading the Wall Street Journal and sipping his cappuccino all the while eyeing a nearby hot buttered croissant. Life is good, he was thinking to himself. He casually looked out the second story window intoContinue reading “The Coyote”