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Weekly Contest #375
A palpable enemy, the unseasonal heat dominated every day, every activity, the sun overhead an unwelcome prophet of wildfire to come. Even his lightest cotton T-shirt stuck to his skin, a sheen of sweat circled where the cloth met his neck. Hoping for a cooling morning breeze, he left his college studies, leaving the house. Even crows sheltered, unwilling to expose themselves to the grueling temperature. A few houses away, on a sidewalk shaded by a large oak, two boys fiddled with something that looked like a dead black cat, its carcass bloa...
Weekly Contest #199
At the beginning of WWII, our war, I was a young man just out of the California Central Valley, a naive country boy certain of myself. I had just graduated from Officer’s Training School, but did not know where I would be posted. Some Army buddies and I were on a weekend leave out of San Diego. Wearing our spiffy new dress uniforms, we were handsome, young, muscled, tanned. We wanted a place to go, have some fun, meet some girls. (We didn’t have expectations more than maybe a kiss if we were lucky. Things were different then, not more inno...
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