: About Me

My passion is ...

Anything artistic. Paint, photo, prose, music...

I know too much about ...

Being unemployed.

My parents always told me ...

Never go to bed angry.

My childhood ambition ...

To be an author.

My first job ...

Waiter.

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Murder

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Grandpa Jones liked his whiskey about as much as he liked his rocking chair, which was appropriate, because you'd never see him with one and not the other. I used to love that he drank so much, because I always associated the smell of the never-empty glass with the feeling of laughter that was sure to bubble up from my stomach whenever he told me an outrageous story. Maybe it was just because I was young and liked to talk to an adult without being patronized, or because I liked hearing someone swear so much and not care, but I never turned down an opportunity to hear a porch-side story. So...

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