Archive for the '100 Ways to Find Love in the City' Category

Moods

19Nov09

It started with a knock on the window. The rapping of tiny rocks on glass. The Rascal trying to get my attention from the apartment across the alley. I opened the window and leaned out over the yawning chasm of the alley with its stagnant water and assortment of dumpsters and three men trying to [...]


Loose Change

16Nov09

That it was unfair was both clear and certain. Wholly unheeded and generally unimportant, but clear and certain. That it would take all night to try and fix was not so much of a problem but an impossibility. Lacey Tressler was going to sleep tonight if it killed her, and given that there were two [...]


Inspector Fog

13Nov09

“It is Foglebergh,” he demanded in a way that was not polite, was too direct, left nothing to chance but was inscrutable and precise. The problem being that no one had asked his name or pronounced it wrong or had in any way acknowledged the disheveled bum that strode with such purpose across the foyer [...]


Thorn Bridge

10Nov09

Mid morning was a cursed time to be awake and tromping through the summer heat. An observation lost on those not in the moment. An observation that would be to familiar, however true, to be nodded at and recognized by those who also had felt the heat as they plodded through the garbage streets of [...]