Gary sat on the examination table and watched the second hand go around the clock. He twiddled his fingers and slightly bit his bottom lip. He’d been feeling this pain in his chest and had been having these headaches for a while, but he didn’t talk about it much. Many of the times when he…
“Come on, we have to get this packaged and shipped, like yesterday,” Dmitri spoke.He walked around and watched as an employee placed a bag on a small scale.The employee removed the bag and tied a knot and moved it to the side. “John, what the hell are you doing?” he picked up the bag.Dmitri waved…
He sat in the dark as he awaited fate. What did it have in store for him? Was he due a miracle, or was it destined that he remained isolated in what he considered to be the desolate wasteland called life? The slow sounds of mellow instrumentals echoed through the room, yet it was so…
Kaiden looked in the mirror and wiped it free of the steam from the shower. He had the towel wrapped tightly around his waist and squatted down to get a stick of deodorant from under the sink. As he rose to his feet, he saw Christina standing there with a disgusted look on her face….
June 2016 – Springfield IL: President Obama has declared a state of emergency for Chicago, IL, due to the increasing murder rate. “2016 is off to a terrible start in terms of crime, in my own hometown of Chicago. In Just in January alone, there were 292 shooting victims and 51 murders. That’s over half…
“I am not going to consistently go to work for 8-10 hours a day, only to be made to feel like a slave. Slavery ended 400 and something odd years ago,” Brian uttered to Tisha. “Well, how else do you expect us to be able to survive? Off the little money we’re getting from the…
“Ensuring he kept his hands visible through his rear windshield, John slowly pulled the vehicle to the shoulder.The police officer slowly exited the vehicle with his hand on his weapon.The officer approached the vehicle and touched the trunk of the car before proceeding to the driver’s door. ‘License and registration,’ he stated gruffly.John looked the…
