(Rough Draft) Mom draws the young girls a bubble bath, she pours strawberry scented soup into the water and it make large suds. The two young girls play and bathe in the water for about 20–30 minutes. Then dad come in with two towels to dry the girls off. …

(Rough Draft) We move slowly across the concrete slab, no one even notices we are there because of how slow we are. The only thing we are fast about is curling up inside of ourselves. Whenever a bird or a dog or a little kid with a salt shaker finds…

(Rough Draft) Tony and his brother Allen were both born with an aggression that stunned and shocked everyone who ever met them. They would wrestle and box with each other from sunrise to sundown and were always getting injured. One time Tony threw Allen so hard across the room that…

(Rough Draft) When I was in middle school I would always wake up to loud music playing in our kitchen. We lived in one of those old ugly 1960’s split levels, and I lived in the basement and our kitchen was upstairs. It was always really early when the music…

(Rough Draft) I remember it was the beginning of December and we were together at your parents house during that big tropical storm, remember the one with the water sprouts that formed off the beach. You have to remember it was on the news, someone went down there and took…

(Rough Draft) It is the first day of december and the last month of the year. Every New Years Eve I always sit down and write out my New Years resolutions. Its rare if I ever complete more than 2 of my resolutions. They are always very lofty and have…

(Rough Draft) There’s this stack of books to the left of my desk, there it is. And it’s perched on a single novel that is much smaller than the rest of the stack. I’m not sure what I should do about it. …

(Rough Draft) I am a difficult person to buy christmas presents for, my wife will be there first to tell you. One year I casually mentioned that I wanted a Rolex for Christmas, and you know what she got for me? A Timex! Can you believe that? She said a…

(Rough Draft) The sun set quicker than normal that evening, it went out with a fiery red bloom turning the sky pink, orange, and then it went dark blue. Stars peppered the sky and the moon glowed dimly behind the mountains. I hed set up camp that night on my…