The delights of a motorway service station hotel were not immediately apparent to me. McDonald's and KFC are not exactly haute cuisine. The noisy and very functional hotel was not Shangri La. I was working in Bristol, living in London. To avoid a daily commute, I used a variety of cheap hotels. This one week I had forgotten to book my usual hotel, and all I could manage was the Ramada at the Gordano Services on the M5 jus...
It was our fifteenth wedding anniversary, and my wife B had scored us a great deal for beer tasting at a brewery about an hour and a half away. We both enjoyed a personalized flight of samples and a pint of our favorite so we each had a nice buzz once we finished drinking. From there, we walked next door to a nice Italian restaurant for dinner and water to help sober up before our drive home. About halfway through dinner,...
The start of the four-day Memorial Day weekend holiday had arrived and the Blake family is heading to their Summer cottage. Dad's 1960 Buick LeSabre wagon had been packed to capacity the night before with the supplies they would need for cleaning their cottage which had sat vacant all Winter along with the food supplies to get them through that first weekend. In order to be at their destination long before the traffic bec...
Twenty-four-year-old Maya had lived all her life in Los Angeles. Her mother took off when she was twelve and never looked back. Her father, Mateo, found himself as a single father. He did the best he could. Truth be told, it was a lot better than many of her friends' duel parent situations turned out to be. When Maya graduated from high school, her father moved home to a small town outside of Tucson, Arizona. In the five...
"Fuck you Jimmy!" she yelled as she stormed out of the wooden house."Fuck me? Fuck you! You're a stupid whiny bitch!" Jimmy said chasing after slamming the screen door as he left."What did you call me?" she turned around as he approached her in his white tank top and blue jeans."Bitch, want me to spell it for you?" he said looking down at her."You know what?" she shook her head. "You're not even worth it!"She stormed off...
