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  • Huckleberry Pound

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       I can only scribble about myself and my time.      Tell about growing up in a dive tavern in a bad neighborhood, Southeast Washington D.C., but little of the politics of that Marble City surrounding me. It is just… Read More ›

  • First Date Horror

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        When I was eighteen, I met a very attractive twenty-six year old, blonde, single mother of a 6 year old girl. I quickly asked her to go out to dinner and a movie for our first date. I got… Read More ›

  • Terror On Flight 319

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         I made it to the airport and waited in a long line to be checked for security purposes before my flight. I made sure I wasn’t hungry by eating just before at a Mexican food chain inside the airport…. Read More ›

  • The Delivered Letter

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         My Uncle was a bigwig in the Post Office and he would get me and my friends, part-time, eighty-nine day job appointments. The hourly wage was great for summers between college courses, or laying around till something more permanent… Read More ›

  • Selling Cars

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         When I was in my twenties, broke and looking to make some money, I took a job selling cars. Back then, everything you heard about degenerate car salesmen was absolutely true. No internet, or survey’s from the corporate car… Read More ›

  • Madam Tillie ….The Fortune-Teller

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         Madam Tillie was a palm reader, fortune-teller on Silver Hill Road. In our youth,  my friend Joe and I were sure it was a whore house and the rumors seemed to confirm it. We were eighteen and it was legal for… Read More ›

  • My Pops, The Boxer.

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        My Father was Irish and married a full blooded Italian woman . After he left his boxing career he became a bodyguard to a Washington D.C.  Italian, disorganized crime leader.   One night in bars near the Marine Barracks on 8th… Read More ›

  • The New, Old Hippy, Elderly Democrats’ Revenge.

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         So annoying is that Life Alert ad where the lady screams; “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” Personally,  just showing the woman rotting on the floor, and her femur bone being gnawed by her pet dog Fluffy, who… Read More ›