Category Archives: semi-fiction

The Lent Of No Beer 2015

March 5, 2025 – 9:58 am

Lent is the six-week period of Catholic fasting from Ash Wednesday to Easter, allowing the faithful the chance to atone for the previous year’s sins by mirroring the span of time the Messiah spend in the desert before He succumbed to the temptations not of Satan, but his own mortal flesh. While I’m a full-blown […]

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Beneath General Sherman’s Horse

March 1, 2025 – 10:00 am

Anger. At Anger Management the councilors have claimed that we possess three-second trigger defenses before we pull the trigger. I have always begged to differ. My anger trigger is ‘now’. This afternoon I was on a pleasant walk through lower Central Park from my hospital. Exiting from the zoo I strolled to 60th Street listening […]

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Nacht Und Nebel 2011

March 1, 2025 – 9:24 am

In the summer of 1982 Count-No-Count phoned my East Village apartment. Kurt was offering a job as ‘tursteher’ at his nightclub BSIR in Hamburg. The pay for a doorman was $150 a night, free accommodations, and all I could drink. Being dead-broke and wanted for questioning by the NYPD Internal Affairs for payment to the […]

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Thai Tattoos Too -2007

February 28, 2025 – 4:45 am

Pattaya must be the per capita capitol of farangs with tattoos. Shirtless westerners parade the streets to exhibit the beauty of their body art, despite the collateral damage to the colored flesh from the tropical sun. Most tattoos are eagles, dragons, and declarations of never-ending love to go-go girls festooned with vows of fidelity to […]

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Come all ye Faithful to Sodom and Gomorrah – 2008

February 28, 2025 – 1:35 am

Pattaya is a city not well-known for monogamy. Promises of fidelity last until you leave the short-time room, because this city has temptations by the thousands and those temptations rarely say no. Bar girls, rent boys, ka-toeys, booze, and drugs add up to damnation according to Reverend Joe Stannis of the Holy Revival Church located […]

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