Category: writing
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Featuring: Tequila (Right): The veteran advisor, stoic, seasoned, slightly offended. Little Tequila (Left): The original favorite, now dethroned. New Tequila (Center): The upstart. The usurper. The plush with momentum. James: King, judge, snack distributor, and chaos incarnate. — James entered the living room with the slow, heavy-footed authority of a man who has had it…
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Back in those strange, slow, stay‑home days, when the world paused life in a thousand ways, you worked at your desk with your coffee in tow, while Jackson—just seven—let his little mind grow. His feet barely touched the floor back then, his days full of questions he’d ask you again, and right on his desk,…
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Father approaches me with the vacuum. He holds it like it’s a mighty weapon, but I know the truth: he is untrained. Unworthy. A novice attempting to perform sacred duties within my kingdom. “Hey buddy, want to help me vacuum?” he asks. Help him? Help him? I, James the Mighty, James the Protector of Crumbs,…
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The Tequila Council was in session — Big Tequila on the right, Little Tequila on the left, Circle Tequila humming in the middle like a wise old oracle — when James marched in carrying not one but two new recruits. A pink weighted dino, heavy with authority.And a red panda, whom James immediately renamed “Red…
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Lord have mercy, look at them. Like a pack of colorful, sugar-crazed locusts descendin’ on a freshly mowed lawn. Honestly, if these kids put half as much effort into findin’ their shoes in the mornin’ as they do chasin’ down a plastic egg filled with three stale jellybeans, we’d have a much quieter Sunday. Now…
