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Charlie and the Big Blue Ox

Tweet Read Charlie Chapter 1 Read Charlie Chapter 2 Somewhere deep in the distance, a telephone rang and the trembling sound rattled Charlie out of a dream.  A blanketed body rolled over and exposed an arm, his fingers stretched and snapped a nightstand light, he picked up the source of the sudden-recurring volume, “Hello?” “Mr. [...]

Charlie Goes To Canada, sort of

TweetSome say the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; stay the course, do your best to maintain status-quo, and gradually, life will reward your patience. For a lifetime, Charlie had been one of those people.  He felt content, mostly happy; a daydreamer with no real plans for follow-through on any [...]

Charlie

Charlie thought about running away, leaving everything behind.

South America, maybe Canada or Ireland, Charlie could disappear, fall off the grid, find an island somewhere and live like Les Stroud.

Thank God It’s Friday

TweetWater poured into the streets from the rooftops above a bustling city. The roads quickly swelled with water and another rainy weekend seemed all the more likely. She frowned and spun the chair around to face the stack of paperwork that had dominated the day, the week, her life. Still, from sixty-three floors above the [...]