In late April, Jake rode home on his bicycle, after a long day at the local high school.  He slowly pedaled down the street in the mid-afternoon sun.  He reached his house and went inside.  “Ma! Home!” he shouted. There was no answer, but from the sounds he heard, he figured she was standing in the … Continue reading Post number 10: Jake

During the 21st Century, scientists learned that their conventional ideas about black holes were incomplete. Despite the unimaginable gravitational power of black holes, researchers discovered that they all, every last one of them, emitted a detectable signal into our space-time. The binary signal translated as “The end is the beginning. All life continues and all shall … Continue reading Post number 9: Signals from the Black Holes in Space

MODESTO, CALIFORNIA (UNVSCSMSNS) February 7, 2023 Updated 8:19 PM PDT, August 8, 2023 Elementary school principal Eloise Riverblack died yesterday after falling and cracking her skull on a decorative boulder in front of the Modesto school campus where she worked.  Larry Hamperson, a plumber employed by the school district, recalled the entire incident. “I was installing new … Continue reading Post number 8: The Death of Eloise Riverblack

Late December 2022 Lihue Airport on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, waiting area: We prepared to return home to Modesto after spending over two weeks visiting our daughter in the town of Kapaa, located on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. We sat in the waiting area, ready to board our plane. Two men, a gay … Continue reading Post number 7: Lihue Airport, Kauai, Hawaii

Oakdale Road 1:30 PM, December 2022 C.E.  Hey everyone, be advised that this post is much longer than most... The First One, the Destroyed Garage I drove in a southerly direction on Oakdale Road. The car in front of me was a white sport utility vehicle (SUV). This was a somewhat confusing designation for a … Continue reading Post number 6: Bright Modesto: Tales of the Three SUVs 

April 16, 2013: Downtown Modesto at a Drive-Through ATM We sometimes used the drive-through ATM at our credit union in downtown Modesto. Usually, when we went to this ATM, there were no other vehicles there and we could drive right up to the ATM and conduct our transactions without having to wait for anyone else. … Continue reading Post number five: The ATM Incident

The Mattress. 10.20.2020, Modesto, California We needed a new mattress. The one on our bed was almost 20 years old. My wife found a highly-rated replacement for the old mattress, a mattress made here in the United States, a fancy thing made with layer upon layer of proprietary foam, which the company declared was not … Continue reading Post number four: The Mattress.

CONTENT ADVISORY: This post has a couple of cuss words! The local bus station was typically segregated. There were six bathrooms; two for white men, two for white women (the signs on the doors said white “ladies”), one for colored men, and one for colored women. The janitor was an African-American (colored) man who was … Continue reading Post number three: Petite Lafayette, Louisiana, 1925

Spring, 2022 Oakdale Road, Modesto, California Philip “Scratchy” Sorenson, a 42-year-old Caucasian man with short brown hair, wore a pair of brown-rimmed glasses and stood smoking a cigarette next to his car in the shopping center parking lot. Late spring in Modesto generally brought some warm weather, sometimes soaring into the 90 degrees Fahrenheit range, … Continue reading Post number two: Philip “Scratchy” Sorenson

May 13 and 14, 1994, Residential Area near the west campus of Modesto Junior College: Disparate thoughts Wind rustling trees at night and droning freeway noises often comfort me. The sounds produced as a result of industrialization merge with the sounds of the natural landscape: birdsong, trilling and chittering insects, and the rustling of small … Continue reading Post number one: Residential Area Near MJC