Diver-Dan

Smoke hung heavy in the air of the small jazz club, waiters awkwardly navigated through tables and wandering customers with trays filled with varying glass cups. Multiple conversations melded into an incoherent buzzing underneath the rhythmic beats of the band playing on stage. The busy hustle and bustle of the club was oddly relaxing to a patron sitting alone in a circular booth. He could let himself get lost in the chaos and put his guard down momentarily for the first time in weeks. A woman wearing a black and white uniform stopped at his table to deliver his drink. Thanking her he picked up the glass by the rim and swirled the ice withi

It was a surprisingly cool summer night in the small town of Bee Cave Texas, Dell took in a deep breath enjoying the refreshing chill of the breeze. He twirled the purple flower he had picked on his way over as he sat on an embankment outside of a brick building, waiting for the woman who had asked him out for drinks. Thinking of the evening before when he met her made him chuckle, she had been flirting with him for a solid half hour before he even realized. Not until he politely informed her that is was him she was kicking under the table and she leaned in to whisper in his ear that she knew. The warmth of her breath sent shivers down his b

A young man in a red t shirt came sprinting around a corner, holding a metal bat tightly in one hand and the other on top of his head to keep his ball cap from flying off. The dog tags around his neck clattered giving his slower companion a guide to which direction to follow. An older man in a wine colored balaclava and a burgundy pinstriped suit following behind him finally came around the corner to see his younger counterpart at a dead end. “Aw crap were screwed.” The young man said in a Boston accent as he reached his arms up to hold his head in defeat. Getting closer the man in the ski mask was able to see a boarded up mine s