Category: Stories

For those of you in the northeast I felt that this was an appropriate timed story. Keep warm out there.

It was just your typical Wednesday night. The family had eaten dinner without dad, yet again. Then it was off to their rooms for Carson and his brother Christopher to do their homework. The silence throughout the house was suddenly broken by the sound of a diesel engine and insistent beeping of a backup alarm. [...]

  Oswald spent his childhood and most of his adult life living in a city. To him there was nothing better than to wake up to the sound of the bustling city on the streets outside his apartment window. He loved the frantic speed that everyone especially himself moved at. There was never time to [...]

Year by year we all grow a little older and more nostalgic for the good old days. I know for me as I’ve aged in years and there are more and more grays sprinkled in my once lush and now thinning hair, I have come to appreciate the good things in life. What better way [...]

It’s been 242 years since the sounds of cannon and muskets rang out from the fort along the lake. Back then it was an important line of defense for the fledgling little country. During it’s time in active use it saw its share of disease, petulance, and of course battle. Now this once great fort [...]

I grew up in a small picturesque kind of town. Main street had a lot of charm. Even with it being a major thoroughfare in the state, it was still a relatively peaceful setting. On main street, there was an old-fashioned country store, where you could get almost anything your heart could desire. If by chance [...]

Everyday people drive by storage units and never know what’s located within them. For the most part, no one ever even gives it much thought. Of course, unless you are one of those people who buy’s storage units when the owner fails to pay the rent. Now people would say that I am an unusual [...]

My parents spent a lot of money on my education. Not just college, but, all the way from pre-K and up. They wanted the for me. In the long run, it payed off. I went to Ivy league business school. My entire time there the lowest grade I ever got was a 3.9 one semester. [...]

For the past dozen years or so I have been living in a small mountain town. In my mind I have become a local during that time. I know a large number of people throughout my town and the surrounding towns. Of course there are people that I might not know on a first name [...]