Dave Ruskjer
Bio
Communications Concentration from Andrews University, living in Lakeland, Florida
Stories (31/0)
Worst Case Scenario
It's never a good sign when someone you’re giving mouth-to-mouth to starts bleeding from the ear. It’s even worse when every breath you breathe causes bubbles to come up through that blood with a sickening wheezing sound. What makes it all but unbearable is when the victim is a child -- a child you know -- a child who only moments ago was riding in the back of the pickup you were driving ...
By Dave Ruskjer2 years ago in Humans
Ode to Joy
The strangest things happen in the weirdest places. My first job out of college was working in the communications department at the world headquarters of, at that time (and now, too, for that matter), the fastest-growing denomination in the world. I'd been there a couple of years.
By Dave Ruskjer2 years ago in Families
Enough is Enough!
It's 7:53. Monday morning. School starts in seven minutes. I should have left home 20 minutes ago. Only a mile by foot, but one needs time to put away books, hang up jackets and get a bead on the day from fellow classmates. As a matter of fact, I did leave the house at 7:30 -- only to sneak back in, tiptoe down to the basement and crouch under the Ping Pong table. I begin to sweat.
By Dave Ruskjer2 years ago in Fiction
Slimeball
It's hard enough starting your own business without being accosted by slimeballs . . . The reason I called my company Touch Talk Technologies was simple: we dealt in applications (before “apps” became the dominant descriptor) in which users used touch tones on their phones to interact with computers “who” talked to them.
By Dave Ruskjer2 years ago in Humans