Failure

The stories within this collection have been gleaned from a novel I finished late November of 2005 less than 2 weeks before my 21st birthday.

Speeding Ticket

I got a speeding ticket the other day, whipping too quickly around a corner, divebombing the blackness of an unlit country road and officer PJ Hearn and his badged buddy u-turned to follow my naked white rental.
Cherry

Coming Home

I moved home, bleakly packing my belongings into blue bins and black garbage bags. He met me at the corner, his picked-clean arms grabbing the bins' handles and slocking them into