Just when you thought Starbucks had already bamboozled you out of your “fun money” for the week, now they’ve upped the ante with fermented grapes and barley pop. After 4pm, you can get your drunk on with the other artsy types and poor college students killing time at Seattle’s finest soaking up the free Wi-Fi. Besides coffee, they will be sporting beer and wine…

I can sit all day wondering what the world would look like if it were not artificial, and I see the landscape filling out, the buildings crumbling and so much light and green. I can feel the damp coolness of heather and

evergreens, the musty smell of fern filling my nostrils, reminding me of a long forgotten armpit I used to burrow my face in; eyelashes playing Eskimo kisses with…

Stefano doesn't tell Grandpa about the request for Vito from his undead chum since the cookie craving Grand Fellows are reckoned half-baked and no one would believe him anyway. When the sun sets, he takes what appears to be a yellow cab as suggested on the invitation to the Palisades Parkway and without hurry, the vehicle ambles to a murky road not far from the Hudson River.…

Hey, you lot, I want to put something right. I've been the subject of really bad press, I and my compatriots have picked up the bill for YOUR failings and a mighty big bill it was…

She would only let herself cry on Tuesdays, if it rained. She would sob loudly during thunderstorms, let tears fall silently during light showers. She liked the lack of control and a sense of higher authority that governed her emotions. Tears collected in puddles as insignificant as rain drops. She would not allow herself to cry forever. Only on Tuesdays, weather…

Adi Da went to an island, and he said that when he got there the spirits of the place tried to size him up a bit, to see what the case with him was, and were even mildly challenging towards him. Soon they backed off, and changes in the weather and other signs appeared, but as things go,…

They do not greet in any way imaginable.

They are poorly chaperoned, and travel like Huns.

They do not recite the magic phrase, or utter thank you without a prompt.

They posess an unreasonable sense of entitlement, especially the old ones, who should exclude themselves, but are too shameless and greedy.

They are strangely attired, and wait for compliments from confused adults.

They are the Trick or Treaters, and I give them candy so that I will not eat it…

Everyone knew two things about old Tony: that he had a mild case of Tourette’s, and goosing him would trigger it. Whenever poked, he’d make a pistol with his finger, point it at the sky and say “Goddamn,” along with the last word or phrase he’d heard.…

Stump Shiner spotted his brother Hoot at the far end of the barroom, leaning over backwards into the lap of a voluptuous brunette and waving an empty beer bottle.

By any standard, Hoot's bachelor party had been a most successful, old fashioned boys' night to howl.

Even Bootsy Sykes, their designated driver, had enjoyed Seven-Ups with a side of stripper.

Stump was plowed, and he knew it, but the spinning room did nothing to lessen the beauty of the blonde goddess holding…

In the weeks after Angelica returned from Woodstock 99, she was different in ways that left her father feeling uncomfortable, but he didn’t say too much about it in front of his ex-wife because Cassie had…