I should probably give you some background information first.  In the year 32 BBY, (Before the Battle of Yavin) the reclusive cloners on Kamino began the creation of a secret clone army, at the behest of an order placed by Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas.  (Later that same year, I… Read full post »

As the new Senior Vice President of the largest revenue producing division of the organization, she had roughly 200 people indirectly reporting to her.  She had stepped over the "bodies" of pretenders and wannabes to get to where she was now, and a few of those bodies were evidence/… Read full post »

My summer job that year was at a Day Care Center on White Plains Road in the Bronx.  Caught in the conundrum of determining my future, I had walked away from becoming an  architect, and was contemplating a career in art or elementary education.   For someone who was avidl/… Read full post »

It is my nature to be protective of others.  Natural instincts that I have followed throughout my life… require me to support my friends, protect strangers at risk, and provide help and guidance wherever possible. This should be fairly straightforward and clear.  It is not.… Read full post »

I didn’t see the blood on my pillow at first. 

The awful, sinking realization that I had missed my plane... was slowly settling over me. (Eyes... following me)  It was my habit, from countless business trips, to set the alarm on my phone to wake me at/… Read full post »

“They were all so happy that Mr. Castiglione had been able to join them that day,” Cooper said softly.  “They had no way of knowing that he would live to speak at the funerals of Uncle Remy and your great grandfather.”

The woman sat quietly listening to her… Read full post »

The five of them were in their usual place this Tuesday afternoon.  They had finished eating long ago and now they were once again solving the problems of the world… and flirting with Flo.  Flo had been their waitress now for as long as she worked at the bistro./… Read full post »

Lovely memories sustain me.  The good times and the parties were amazing...  the intimate nights.  

I had a really nice date last night.   Let the new memories begin.  

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Mizar was Karma’s favorite star.  Zeta Ursa Majoris is actually a multiple star system, but I never knew that until after she was gone.  To her, the crook in the handle of The Big Dipper was simply... Mizar.   The last time we lay on the roof of the/… Read full post »

First

Intimate awakening,

Sunlight slivers reveal

Uncontrollable tremors captured forever.

 Unforgettable 

Searching

Green fields.

Desperately, ceaselessly, fearfully

Acknowledging guilt and love.

Runaways.

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The rotund attorney from the Public Defender’s Office was named Owen.   Owen had been warned in advance, that this client might be difficult… particularly for him.   Having spent almost 12 years opposing the ADA’s in Judge Benton’s cour/… Read full post »

My throat hurts.  In fact, I've got a problem with my face and my throat.   Throat... is burning and it's hard to see.  Difficult to focus. It’s like looking through the glass block privacy wall in my shower stall. It’s distorted… but I can s/… Read full post »

To me, she was a movie star and a wet dream all rolled into one.  She had this million dollar smile that seemed to light up the classroom day after day.  I would have done anything to have her turn that smile my way.   Unfortunately, she never gave me a/… Read full post »

He could still feel Jay Jay's hand tugging on his sleeve.  The way his eyes lit up when the crowd roared, whether he completely understood what was happening or not. 

“Is it a home run Dad?  Is it a home run?”

Jay Jay would have grasped the other a… Read full post »

Facebook discussions and ongoing activities have unearthed people and friends from my past that I haven’t thought about in years.   Such recollections have also rekindled long lost memories.  Some are wonderful memories of happy times, while others have dredge/… Read full post »

All of a sudden, I felt like I was fighting for my life. 

The gentle tugging on the line that gradually became more insistent... and that I’d come expect, didn’t happen.  One minute I was day-dreaming and contemplating the continuing conversation we were havi/… Read full post »

She had served with him on the Board of Directors. He had become a friend. She didn’t know many Black men personally in her lifetime.  Oh, she had indirectly made acquaintances from time to time, either at work or through her first husband, or through friends of her chi/… Read full post »

Following the recent shooting at the Holocaust Museum in DC, the news reporter referenced the Intelligence Project findings published by the Southern Poverty Law Center.  This study features a nationwide mapping of 926 supposedly active “hate groups” throughout the/… Read full post »

I have been here all night and for the first time I am alone.  No one is beside me any longer.  My baby's upstairs in her hospital bed, resting... hopefully asleep after the events of the evening.

The corridors and sitting rooms should be familiar to me,… Read full post »

Ric was particularly animated in expressing his displeasure with the movie.  I hadn’t realized that he felt as strongly as he did as we were watching it.

“I can’t believe that this was the movie that we thought was going to be something special.  It was terr/… Read full post »

 Preceded by Cheney's Gift and Cheney Feathers

I would have recognized Bettie Mae anywhere.  It wasn’t her whole name, but that’s what I called her.  She wasn’t no big movie star, or pin-up girl, to me neither!  Not to me. 

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I offer you one of my favorite scenes from an old movie from 1991. In this scene,  the central characters had been set up to fail and it looked like they were about to go down for the count. 

Then... from the ashes, they come back with a vengeance. &… Read full post »

The crowd of dancers moved in odd, stop-action snap shots as he watched.  So many of them in casual jeans,/… Read full post »

Yet another day in the life of Alexander Cheney first introduced in Cheney's Gift.  The narrator is Alexander Cheney himself.  

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I can’t say that I ever heard the old girl say a blessed word.  Not one. 

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It makes me weak in the knees to hear Australian women say the word “cock.” I just love it. They say it with such extraordinary joy… as if surrendering to the wonderful possibilities of it all. 

I was so pleasantly amazed that I watched the woman beside me… Read full post »