Ghost

—Can I ask a weird question? Is this place haunted? She came in with a big wedding party. They’re all near the back of the bar by the photobooth, three tables pushed together, laughing drinking, and taking pictures. She wanders up to the bar by herself, steps out of sparkling high heals, leaving them onContinue reading “Ghost”

Columbus, Ohio

Tuesday morning I rented a car and drove to Columbus, Ohio. I’ve been to Columbus three times before. The first time was in 1997 when a friend of a coworker of mine at Pearl Art & Craft hired me to move him there in my 1978 GMC van. I was back in Chicago the followingContinue reading “Columbus, Ohio”

The Two-timers

‌ ‌‌He wears his Red Sox cap backwards. He’s somewhere in his fifties with a full head of white hair (unless the cap he never takes off is hiding a bald spot.) He’s got a bit of a Leslie Nielsen/Steve Martin thing going; one of those silver fox assholes. And he definitely is an asshole. She’s aContinue reading “The Two-timers”