Tag: fiction

Sell Out!!

It was a typical boring Saturday night. Translated: I was too exhausted to get off my butt and do something that required any effort on my part. So I thought I’d just tool around on my cell phone, and nurse a couple of pints of Knicker Twister beers while chilling on my well-worn La-Z Boy…

By Charles R. Bucklin December 5, 2022 Off

He Who Laughs

* This story was first published in Spillwords.com March 10th, 2022. Story contains some Strong Language. They were all thieves, murderers, and thugs, and they all wanted a piece of me. Culled from inner-city ghettos or harvested from backwater hamlelts in the South – my platoon represented the worst society had to offer. Most of…

By Charles R. Bucklin September 5, 2022 Off

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