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Weekly Contest #53
Miami was hot and sultry. I was 17 years old, it was June 1969 and I graduated with honors. Mom wanted me to stay home with her all summer as a last family hurrah before venturing out in the world to attend the University Of Tampa. I am a September kid so I graduated at 17 years old and would enter college before I turned 18. Yes, a little scary but in the 60s kids were in the middle of love, faith and happiness, hippy life was only dangerous if you took a hit of LSD during a sit/love in. Virgo kids do not do drugs they just watch others act...
Weekly Contest #44
“Hey, Dad, I’m going to be hooker,” is not something every father dreams of hearing. But in my case, it came as a blessing, because Dad knew I had to do what it took to get the job done right. Even so, the uniform was a bitch. It’s 1985 and the center of Miami is a cesspool of a swamp and not the kind of gators, mosquitoes, snakes and the garden-variety wildlife. This is the Miami that Scarface shit out after all the prisoners and miscreants from Castro’s boatlift became wards of Florida, giving new meaning to the words natur...
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