Eight bright yellow vans sat patiently waiting for morning and their “ducklings” to come and take them to the next appointment. Emblazoned across the back doors of the vans was the Ducky Ducts clever tag line: We Clean Your Pipes Slick as a Whistle, Guaranteed. How embarra...
I honestly had no idea what had just happened back there. I tried, with no success, to get a hold of Coop. I knew he’d know what to do, and if he didn’t, he’d help me figure things out. Damn dude. Maybe he was behind bars himself on disorderly conduct charges against the G...
His granddad arrived at Ellis Island in the late 1800s and settled in New York until a brother talked him into moving to Minnesota, a land ripe with opportunity for hard-working men. The Korean Conflict was in full swing when my dad hit seventeen, and he lied about his age...
Exhaustion pulled at my core, making my head feel thick. Sleep had eluded me until about an hour before the alarm went off, by which time I felt terrible. Lack-of-sleep hangovers suck. Anna, Kate’s sister, stood at the counter chatting with Eddy. Anna was a student at the ...