Author Archives: billypuyear

Franky lounged in the DumDum Lounge nursing his drink, nursing his headache, and thinking about nurses. Nurses, sterile white-robed angels dispensing drugs and sponge baths, made him think of Nik. Nikolina Stravinski was a Russian expatriate. She left when her … Continued

The love of my life brought home an old table and chair that belonged to her Grandmother, God rest her soul. My beautiful wife’s mother had been storing them in the shed out back. I forgot to take “before” pictures … Continued

Edward stood shivering outside the apartment, finishing his cigarette and admiring the Christmas lights and spray-can frost in the windows of the buildings across the parking lot. It was cold but he didn’t want to go inside and face April … Continued

The light spilling from the windows of the house glittered on the beer cans and bottles littering the front yard. Cars were parked in a seemingly unbroken line on both sides of the street, choking the steady flow of traffic … Continued

In Guy DeMaupassant’s 19th century morality tale, The Necklace, Mathilde Loisel starts out melancholy and wistful, married to a clerk in the Department of Education, daydreaming about wealth and greatness. Beautiful and smart, but born into a middle-class family, married … Continued

I sat in the dark light of the hot tub and thought about all that I’d had and all that I’d lost. It was a Texas February, and while not as cold as the rest of the country, it was … Continued

Long time, no post! i got a full time job and, once again, ignored the blog. Anyway, I was on the couch last Friday night, wasting time on the internet, when a rat comes walking into the room like it … Continued

Per almanac.com, the term “on the wagon” first came into use at the turn of the 20th century, when someone who gave up drinking alcohol was said to be “on the water cart”, meaning that he was using the services of … Continued