“DEAR MR. SIR, I apologize to encroach into your privacy in this manner, but I approach you in a request for assistance regarding a...

You know what the worst thing about the hotels around the Mediterranean heel of Italy is? It's the nightly struggle with the hotel AC....

Today is the big day. Well, technically tomorrow is the big day – but today is a big day too. One year ago, he’d booked his first day of...

“I have an EXCEL SPREADSHEET for everything man. Look!” I lean in and, shading my eyes against the hot, Tuscan sun, peer into the...

I’m hungry, It said. Feed me. Like a Devil-Baby, It nags at the back of the mind. I didn’t know what to do – and yet, I identified with...

THE CROWD CHANTS. The music fades. The curtains rise. Everyone stands and cheers as he steps into the spotlight. “Thank you. Thank you!”...

IN THE AUSTRIAN ALPS lives a wild man. To behold him in his natural habitat, one might easily mistake him for a mountain bear, for he is...

HE WASN’T QUITE SURE WHERE THEY WERE, but he knew they were somewhere in California. His parents had told him that they’d stopped between...

ONE AFTERNOON we decided to join some friends at a pool party. The Soul Street, a gourmet street food restaurant with pool access DJ was...

I don’t want to write today. Can that just be the end of this essay? I guess not – but at least those sentences rhyme Don’t get your...

HE LOOKED OUT OVER THE PALE BLUE OCEAN and dug his feet into the hot sand. Earlier in the day, he had picked up a single grain, just to...

SHE LOOKED OUT OVER THE PALE BLUE OCEAN and dug her feet into the hot sand. Earlier in the day, she had picked up a single grain, just to...

A LONG, STEEL PIPE smashes against my head with a metallic CLANG! I’m awake!! What day is it? What year is it? I look at my alarm clock....

We watch the pot, waiting for it to a boil. As I pour the hot water into the French press, the bitter aroma of fresh coffee stimulates...

ONE DAY, when I was in a time of need, the Fates reached out to me. They extended their hands in shape of a man who was further along in...

THE SUN BURNED in the sky. It was just past midday, and I was thankful for the cool blast of the AC in my eclectic Italian rental car....

“How short you want it?” I look into the mirror, straight into the eyes of the masked Syrian wielding a pair of razor-sharp scissors...

“I GOTTA GO! I’ll see you later!” He kisses her on the cheek, double checks his gear and mounts the hot-rod red YAMAHA XSR900. The engine...

“WHAT THE FU… - Baby! Come and look at this!” I pointed at my dick. “What is it?” “I dunno. Looks like a rash.” “How long has it been...

STANDING ON THE STAGE of the auditorium, the man glances anxiously at the clock. The long arm indicates seven minutes past the hour. Why...

THE SIGNS were all there. It was so obvious! Why did everyone refuse to see it but him? For many weeks now he’d been gathering...

ON THE OUTSKIRTS of a small village, in a deep valley surrounded by high mountains, there is a stone bridge that crosses the river. Next...

The first time we met she said: “I hate my job. You wouldn’t believe the shit that goes down where I work.” She works in finance, “so...

We come from an old family. A family where the values are passed on, generation over generation. A family, where responsibility is born...