this story has ended. I got a job. The gang won't make it to Mary and her gang in time to catch Bigfoot and get the secret serum, which was song lyrics. The band won't play the first last song …

Wonderful day for visibility from up here, having climbed up out of his canyon, Nick scans over to the ocean, so close, like pudding, chrome clay just beyond that hill, Carlsbad or Leucadia, Oceanside, San Clemente, Catalina island he practically …

"What's that noise? There's someone here! There's someone else here!" Tanya, Kyle's date became frantic, "Who's here!" She ran out to the living room. "Come on come on come on!" Dan was hissing at Tony from the opened door, Tony …

"Shh!" Tony Dan Nick and Isaiah were forced into the back room. They look out of a slither of light. "Hi!" She's tall and lean, dressed casually, with a necklace and earrings. Kyle is naturally his ebullient self, "Hi Tanya! …

"Yeah, so it's all up to them two." Finishes Mary. "Hmm, and he, He, arrives tonight?" Asks Sara. "Yep." Answers Mary unfaltering, getting up she triple checks the calendar, points a finger, beckoning Sara and Elis to get up and …

"No, they don't fit now." I said to Tony, who put my new pants in the dryer. "Dude, they're fine." "Whatever, thanks a lot." Just now Dan returns from the corner liquor store, he sees Tony and I. Upon seeing …

A great night of sleep, with an interview tomorrow at station pizza here in town. How should I dress? How do I quell my neurotic trembling? I know how to make pizzas, and sandwiches, but will I be the right …

The gang went to see The President's Band perform live in Encinitas. Everyone, Kyle Isaiah Tony Dan and Nick all piled into the sedan, each with their own preconceptions. "I think they're a good band." Says Tony, dressed to impress, …

"on seventh and maple" says Isaiah into the receiver, while I scan over and back for police, "yeah man, God. No, Ash. Yeah, right on Seventh, alright man, later." "You gonna have children one day?" I ask God, as he …

"Because the Beyond factor." That's what I told Oscar, manager of the Bed Bath and Beyond here in grand plaza. I've tried three seasons in a row, finally he gave me a chance, got the interview. "I've seen that movie …

"It's true, it did happen. look at the streets, along the curb, throughout the lawn. Everywhere, candy wrappers, sticking about, whole suckers crushed in a cloud of sugar crystals, halloween did happen." Little children, don't realize it until after the …

Why we didn't get the rain I don't know. The weather stated the big storm was headed in our way, a big green blob hovering into land. There was the warning last night, a marine advisory twenty miles out from …

I want, need to whistle while i work. I called green thumb, they say something different from last year, see, last year they said the hiring is done in january, now they say march. Alls well, only two month difference. …

While Isaiah, Tony, Dan and Kyle were searching for me, I was busy tramping around the hills. Awhile ago I made a, what would humbly be called, a fort. Yes, a grown man, made a fort in the hills. I …

Kyle says every thing's mellow. His mantra. And when he gets a little drink in him, he'll give you hell insisting that in fact every damn thing is mellow, to what standards I know not. We were at Old California …

Mary can be completely honest about the circumstances, and they won't believe a word. It's so true, it's unbelievable. They won't give it a second thought, they laugh it off. "Oh Mary, you and your crazy theories. And what else?" …

How has time ran so quickly? Did it indeed run from me? There I slept, on my futon, not thinking it were nearly noon. I've been sleeping so much that my knees hurt. I must start my fire, eat something …

"Screw it lets not watch anything." We had tried to catch a movie, but the three-d glasses give me a headache. "Somewhere around there's a foundry." "Yeah it's right behind Tina's Deli." "They had a posting on craigslist." "Go there …

It's nearing that time again, when Bill feels his arrival, sitting in his mobile home. Bill checks the calendar, right on time. Looking out at the expanse of desert laid out in front of his window like a sea, Bill …

I dropped a cookie, and it ran under the washing machine. And yesterday, while tending to my garden, which has all gone to seed anyway, something happened to me which has happened before, a flying animal of some sort attempted …