A little before 1PM, I peeled off my headphones and glanced around. The traffic rolled lazily enough that I could almost hear the click of the streetlight’s switch from red to green. To the west, the Rocky Mountains stood like bouncers to a nightclub. Arapahoe street seemed to scoop down toward them and I wished …
“He turned around, looked at me, and said, ‘I will rearrange your face.’” Nina grabbed my leg and stretched it as she continued her story. “But you know what? I was really proud of myself. He didn’t cock his arm back. I saw that. He wasn’t actually going to hit me. So I didn’t flinch.” …
The truck meep meep meeped a warning as it slid into the bay doors and thudded to a stop. Its odor seeped into the warehouse. When this happened, my first strategy was denial. Maybe I could just ignore the smell. Or maybe it’d be different this time. We’d unlatch the back door, grab the handle, …
“Damn I can see why this kicked my ass six years ago.” Less than an hour before this revelation, I strode from my apartment to Broadway street and unlocked a Mercedes-Benz I’d reserved. For the past few weeks, I had been enjoying the service Car2Go. They have a fleet of cars parked throughout Denver. If …
One spring morning in 2010, I woke up, ambled over to my computer, and discovered my partners cheated me out of a business. I didn’t find out by receiving a long email. Or even an angry phone call. Instead, it was because I checked on something that seemed slightly amiss. The day before, one of …
In 2008, I flew to Los Angeles and took a shuttle to some hotel, with drugs in my bag and anxiety about my finances stewing in my brain. Writing this almost a decade later, I don’t remember the name of the hotel or which month it was. Heck, I’m fuzzy on the year. Just a …
How the heck do I say all this in Spanish? I thought to myself… before giving up and deciding to leave my fate to Google Translate. Eh, I figured a language translation faux pas wouldn’t be an issue in a written letter. Especially if it also contained a $20 bill as a gift. My horrible …
“We might have a position opening soon. But it’s only part-time, and it’s the graveyard shift.” A little after 4PM, I stood at the end of an aisle in King Soopers. I’d just driven most of the way home after a workshift, and stopped by the grocery store just a block from my condo. It …