found drama

Our fort is an ancient resort; the oldest hotel on Ibiza transported to much colder climates. This military installation is the last bastion of the Soviets — our slow take-over of Never Never Land having evolved into some tacit but successful bid for power over the island. From over the moon, Captain Hook sent Petrov […]

We’ve come to the lake to swim, some friends (two or three others) and myself.  The lake has a large island in the middle and may as well be little more than a moat for the island; it’s eighty feed across from the shore to the island at its widest point.  We swim clockwise around […]

At an after-party, I meet this DJ/producer that’s built his career out of pornographic movie soundtracks.  He started out as a DJ in California (he explains) spinning mostly house and breaks; he always wanted to get into the production scene though, to have his discs become the ones that were rocking the floor.  As his […]

We’re leaving A.’s parents’ house which is in my parents’ old neighborhood; we’re driving A.’s dad’s car. (When did he get a Buick?) We’re both in the back seat and she is driving from the passenger side. It’s slow-going because she admits to a slight panic: “I forgot my glasses and my shoes! You need […]

The United States is at war with the Czechs and has sent us as if to do combat with them in Rock Creek Park. I say “as if” because we are sent without body armor or real weapons; we are sent simply with uniforms and commanding-looking poses. Our mission is to go house to house, […]

We (me, P.W., M.G., J.M., & B.S.) are all at his house (B.S.) for an evening of drinks and assorted weeknight relaxation.  At one point we all go outside for a cigarette (though I don’t smoke), continuing from the tales from inside.  Someone (I missed who, exactly) got us onto the topic of gaming.  M.G. […]

We (A. & I) think that we catch a girl in A.’s class cheating and plagiarizing.  It was something off-hand like a comment or a note scribbled on the side of one of her exams.  I don’t think much of it when I mention it — the mention comes as a joke almost — but […]

FIRST: She has found me after all these years. “I’ve missed you so much.” But I just cannot go through with it and race instead back to my room (shamed in both ways). I need to talk my way out of this one and when We finally leave for our flight home, we are too […]

A. & I are Rosa Saxon and Sammy Clay respectively (née Rosa Saks and Samuel Clayman) and we’re having a small-ish get-together at our place.  Close friends mostly; a little drinking, nothing too out of control.  Until we move it out on the deck (we’re at my parents’ old Gaithersburg townhouse) and some of the […]