How do you say no to seventy thousand for a five-minute video?
Hell House
Business Friends
“Have you ever had a girlfriend?”
Both
The accident took place on I-84 near where the entrance to the Taconic snakes around the perimeter of a rolling cattle farm. Though I didn’t see it happen, the back door of the tipped-over trailer must have flung open upon impact. I arrived just as the goats, startled but unharmed, righted themselves and walked through it.
Firework
That night, you slept over on the couch of my tiny bachelor apartment and in the morning, we stood on the balcony watching the sun rise. I asked you, why haven’t you stuck with anyone yet?
She Sleeps
“Where…” the question trails off from lips that refuse to form the words.
“She’s in the trunk.”
“Oh, I didn’t know.”
Humanity’s Last Plague
My college was one of the last universities in the country still standing after a horrible plague that had killed billions. The remaining educational institutions had been reduced to rubble with their libraries burned in protest of what some had called state-sponsored indoctrination.