Fair Game

So you wanna play checkers?
I guess so.  Where’s the board?
Inside.  I’ll get it- hold on.
Solomon sat on the front porch and watched the bats dance in the dusk.  A beer appeared to his left.
Red or black?
Red. He looked down and rubbed a callous on his index finger. You know, I was driving home from work [...]

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He had been streaking through the flotsam and jetsam for as long as he could remember, hurtling past his inextricably bound peers. The overall effect was hard to imagine and generally didn’t require a rational explanation, since no one he knew was immune from the affliction- but that didn’t stop him from thinking at times [...]

Small Touch of Kindness

A cigarette, por favor?
When the stranger had first asked, the motley diction of the language had not fazed Fernando in the least. The dappled dialect was common here- English and Spanish had become so incestuously intertwined that the language they begat limped along sluggishly and awkwardly in half phrases and stillborn symbols. No, it [...]