There was no delay, no time given, no quarter extended by my body, nor begged for by my mind. I’d never detoxed before, although the pain had become an old bad friend. The codeine tablets in my nearby metal drawer, twenty-three of them, got me through the night and...
Searching for Paradise The fire was over but not long gone. The California Santa Ana kind of winds had blown through the town of Paradise with a blowtorch intensity, turning most homes to little more than cinder foundations and ash. I wasn’t coming home to Paradise in...
MATCHLESS Short Story By J. Strauss MATCHLESS Short Story by James Strauss The bike wasn’t much, certainly nothing that any islander would buy. Kam counseled with his dad about getting the Harley but the old man was no help. “Sell the damn thing to one of...