Tag: fiction

The Search for Freedom

Getting older sucks. And anyone who tells you differently is full of shit. Such were my thoughts as I drove home from the store. My cheeks burned with frustration as I replayed this afternoon’s humiliating events in my head. “Hello, can I help you?” bellowed an anorexic bearded kid behind the Health Food store counter.…

By Charles R. Bucklin May 24, 2021 Off

Jake and his Hot Trans Am Part 5

Finally, Saturday arrived, and Jake roared up to our little apartment complex to pick me up. We were going to pick up Donna first and then shoot over to I’m-Not-Crazy-About-Her-Name  Peggy’s house. I had worn some of my bests duds. A Black Sabbath T-Shirt, dark denim jeans, and earth shoes. I thought I looked pretty…

By Charles R. Bucklin April 19, 2021 Off

*Flash Fiction* “Call Me Tony”

“Call me Tony” “Your name is Charlie.”  “Yeah, I know but ‘Charles, Charlie, Chuck – they’re stupid names. So now I wanna be called “Tony.”  “Why?”  “It sounds cool.. Like I am Italian. And it’s the name John Travolta called himself in that Disco movie.”  “Disco movie? Is that why you’re dressed up in that…

By Charles R. Bucklin July 6, 2020 Off

“King of Pain!”

It all started with a pain in the ass. I had turned thirty years old and abruptly my body began to experience troubling aging sensations. Twenty-year-old friends started teasing me about my arrival to “Middle Age” – to which I responded with my middle finger. “I ain’t that old,” I grumbled. Yet my body begged…

By Charles R. Bucklin April 6, 2020 Off