Fiction Weekend for 04/04/2012 – 04/06/2012.

   This week I chose not to follow the prompt, which is  "write a story that begins with the line: "Listen carefully," he said, "this won't be easy for you to hear"". Instead, I submitted a story that I had entered in a conte… Read full post »

I have been carrying this weight around for so long it feels like it has become a part of me. 

But now since everyone on Open Salon is confessing to transgressions of the alter(native) kind, I must unweigh myself of this beastly burden of lies and deceit. I mean Tink… Read full post »

Today, Ms. Ande Bliss, a new blogger on Open Saloon (have mercy on her), posted I Could Have in which she discusses roads not taken. She ends her post with the question: "Do you ever think about your own turning point?"

Which got me to thinking, and that is a dangerous thing.… Read full post »

Fiction Weekend for  4/13-4/15/2012 

I did not follow the prompt this weekend. Instead, I continued with the "Soul Collectors: On Miracle Mile Series".

If you wish to read the previous installments of the "On Miracle Mile Series" refer to the links below.

 A Demon and an Angel on Mir… Read full post »

The other day I posted some photos that I had store in my iPhone. While putting the post together, I thought it would be a good idea to make it an Open Call (OC) which prompted some of you to participate. This OC received such a good response that I decided to… Read full post »

The other day I transferred photos from my iPhone 4S to my computer. While looking through the images I wondered, “WTF! What was I thinking?”

So I decided to share some of them with you.

I hope you enjoy them. 

&nb… Read full post »

Fiction Weekend Stories for 2/17/2012 - 2/19/2012. This week's prompt: Write a story involving an abandoned book in an unexpected place. 

Read the Man NOT a Book

   Desperate, alone, nearing thirty, and with a biological clock that was ticking faster than the timer on a ho… Read full post »

 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 »