Part two of "Bridgette on Miracle Mile, Coral Gables"

 Fiction Weekend Story for 2/10/2012 - 2/12/2012

For this weekend, I continued the “Bridgette on Miracle Mile, Coral Gables” story. Part One: “Bridgette on Miracle Mile, Coral Gables” (click on the title if you… Read full post »

Thanks Scanner and everyone else on Open Salon. 

In a nutshell...

As of this morning, Haggard & Halloo Publications, published my flash fiction story “A Sensuous Moment”. It appears with my real first two initials and last name: JR Alonso. Please read it at their site. If you fe… Read full post »

I didn’t follow this week’s prompt. Instead, I further explored the characters I created in “Under the Bridge”. My last story focused on Bob the Demon see “Collecting Souls”. This story focuses on Bridgette the Angel, Bob’s counterpart in the soul collec… Read full post »

I didn’t do the assigned prompt this weekend. Rather, this story is about Bob the Demon. He is a character I created from my “Under the Bridge” story.

WARNING: THIS STORY GETS VIOLENTLY GRAPHIC TOWARDS THE END!

The bar was packed and filled with first and second-hand smoke. T… Read full post »

UPDATE: My cousin, who I mentioned in my Holiday Blues post, passed away this Friday, December 23rd. We will be attending her funeral later today (December 25th).

She lived a good life. She fought the good fight. She was a good soul. May she rest in peace. 

To my fellow Ope… Read full post »

This post is in response to the “My Blue Holiday” Open Call.

I’m having a triple-play holiday blues this year!

Holiday Blues #1: In which I lose my job
On Wednesday, December 15 of this year, due to restructuring, I was laid off from my job of eleven years./… Read full post »

A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. 

Every word out of the bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words,… Read full post »

 This past weekend, I went with my wife and daughter to the 37th Annual Harvest Festival. It was held at the Miami-Dade Fair Expo Center in Miami, Florida. 

While there, I was able to snap some shots of some really cool looking old timey cars that were in excellent… Read full post »

   I was bored, so I volunteered to do some temporary duty in the Philippines during a joint services exercises. A military exercise is the peacetime equivalent of war. As a whole, military exercises give the phrase “busy-work” a perversely whole new meaning.

   Beside… Read full post »

   The br… Read full post »

   On February 14, 2011, I left for work. Like most mornings, I took the same road I always take. I got on SW 48^th street westbound which when I cross SW 107^th avenue it becomes SW 47^th terrace. Don’t ask me why. It just does; it is one of those/… Read full post »

Dear Men,

If you are anything like me (I will pray for you), you most likely suffer from Fred Flintstone-itis. What is Fred Flintstone-itis?

It is a deadly disease which occurs during certain times of the month if you are involved in a relationship (committed or not)… Read full post »

Really! Seriously. I am not making this up.

The other day I was reading the recent issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, when I happened upon the following quiz: "Are You the 1 Percent?" 

Thinking I would not be anywhere near the One Percent that own everything in this country including me, I… Read full post »

Yesterday, October 15, 2011, about 1,000 Citizens met at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami to protest the blatant lack of representation of the People in our nation's capital by our corporate-owned elected officials.  

According to this morning's Miami Herald, the 1,000 Strong  gathered at Ba… Read full post »

Jim Galt, aka Whoreville Redendcocker, made an Open Call in which he asked us to name twenty famous living or dead persons that we would like to have at a dinner party. You can read all about it here Open Call.

Since I have no chance of ever rubbing elbows with… Read full post »

Okay, so like the other day, I noticed this post by our  illustrious editor. It’s about hating on "Wooly Bully"; a harmless song from the Sixties that has been covered by just about everyone.

And I’m like, why does everyone hate this song so much? It’s got a… Read full post »

Over the last couple of weeks, I was toying around with Open Salon’s search engine when I made an interesting discovery.

I started typing some common names in the search field and setting the search parameters to “Search by Name”. For example, I typed in the name “Anne”.… Read full post »

This post is response to "The moment I felt most American" Open Call.

   Growing up in Astoria, Queens, New York City in the mid-sixties, assimilation was the name of the game. We were Cuban immigrants living in exile. We were strangers in a strange land. However, while we were the… Read full post »

This week I chose prompt A: write whatever you want. This story was inspired by Ume who challenged me to write a version of “Sweat Drops the Size of Quarters” but from the girl’s point-of-view. I have never written from a woman’s perspective before, so here goes nothing or som/… Read full post »

An Open Salon Mystery Trivia (actually it's only a mystery to me)

Dear fellow Open Salon Bloggers, 

I need your help.

For the longest time, I have been trying to find out the name of an actor who used to play a recurring character in one of the '60s and… Read full post »