– A Horny Short – Most college aged kids don’t care too much about birds. Still closeted Brandon was no different. Yet due to taking a “Creative Writing in Nature” course to pad out his sophomore year, he found himself being herded into a coach bus and shuttled to a semi-local nature preserve as part…
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Off the Trail Spur
– A Horny Short – Not far outside of town is a decent walking trail. It meanders in and out of hollows and plays shyly with a creek, coming alongside it for brief moments before darting off again amongst the stands of birch and sassafras. And occasionally, when the leaves are at their fullest and…
20. The Show
When Brandon and Anthony reached the mountains of loose soil at the edge of the drop off, Anthony handed Brandon the tripod and readied his own selfie-stick. “Here. You better stand here until I’m sure you won’t top those boots.” “And what if I want to top my boots?” Brandon retorted, almost indignantly. Anthony was…
19. The Shoe on the Other Foot
Brandon sat on Anthony’s new sofa, scrolling through images on his iPad. “What’s going on up there?” he called up the stairs. He had let himself in nearly ten minutes ago, having arrived at the house at the agreed upon time. Two weeks had passed since what they had had what Brandon referred to as…
18. The Delivery Window
Don’t you work at Michaelis & Company?” Dell’s text broke though the monotony of the morning. Brandon generally loved what he did, but entering lamp serial numbers into a spreadsheet was making him want to put a oil rubbed bronze final through his eye. He smiled at the welcome distraction. “I do. Are you finally…
16. The Water Pad
There wasn’t much fun about the annual family reunion–at least not to Brandon. Happening one of the last weekends in August, it always heralded the end of another summer vacation and the dreaded return of another school year. It also meant a crowded pavilion full of people that he really didn’t know, but was expected…
13. Snow Boots in July
Not every kid gets a summer of s’mores, kayaks, and rollercoasters. Brandon didn’t. His mom having returned to work in order to help pay mounting bills that came with the new house and his older siblings both working summer jobs, Brandon spent many days fending for himself at home. It wasn’t all bad. Once he…
10. Lawrence
When Brandon was seven, his parents bought a plot of wooded land fifteen minutes from their small house with the intention of building on it. Two years of plans, dreams, contractor meetings, and permit filing later, they began to the process of removing trees and breaking ground. Brandon was fairly uninterested in the process itself,…
Shoe Horny 