(An excerpt from a short story I started)

Noori passed today; he once was my best friend while growing up in a mostly Arab American community in Dearborn; you see, Noori was my next door neighbor and best friend for most all of our young defining years.…

There's a deep dark secret in the South that has to do with Southern men and I think extended sunshine might have a lot to do with it.

The North seems to carry the jaundiced Germanic eye that needs two lawyers and a testimonial from Jesus before you can draw a paycheck and your performance outside the workspace is based in the barroom and not the bedroom.

But travel south and there is a laid back gentility that is borne in the local water of a pair of glinting blues eyes that…

He hadn't slept well for months so his groggy brain perked when he heard her raspy voice on the phone; "I know, I know, I can't wait either, it sounds, so wonderful”....... a very long pause and her secretive voice ended with a "me too!"

She did not set his mind at ease the next morning when she told him in a nervous voice that she wanted to go out to dinner on Friday; 'damn', he told himself, 'it's one of those bullshit dinners where the hammer drops half way through the main course,…

It was the 'chocolate couple' next to us that got my attention and their buzz overrode Nanc in a heartbeat.

So how do you shut one down and peak on the other without being disrespectful?

I know, I know; you gals have a brainwave that works with multiple proficiency but a little respect for us left-brained guys that have a singular focus.

Suddenly the MUSAK is playing the song; “God bless the child that got’s in own.”

So many thoughts and deliberations to such a…

A sudden February nightshade pulled down with a jerk;  she said that she was only fifty percent fulfilled.

And I said "fifty percent is better than nothing", and the bedposts rattled.

She said, "I’m on a journey".

I said; "I know it’s a big house but how far is your journey from the kitchen to the bedroom?"

She said;  "Exactly!"; (I negated the 'asshole' comment purely from self interest)

The next day she was outta here on the wings of my American Express…