Dub Wright
Bio
Curmudgeon; overeducated; hack writer; too much time in places not fit for habitation.
Stories (81/0)
Da New Piana
Aunt Flo played the old piano as if she was shoeing a nag tied to the back porch. Well meaning Christians saved the piano from a fire of suspicious origins. It seems the blaze started in an upstairs bedroom of a local brothel. At my young age I neither knew what the word brothel meant nor why any of the local Christian men knew that a piano was located inside the ornate Victorian structure located on the outskirts of the village of Lizard Gulch.
By Dub Wright5 years ago in Families
O'Connell Bridge - Pt. 31
LC and Seamus sat in the Ashling bar watching the clock. Clarice didn’t show up.” At 11 PM, they were the only ones in the bar and the bartender began closing up the liquor and cabinets. “Seamus, go on to where you go. I’ll see you for breakfast tomorrow.”
By Dub Wright5 years ago in Humans
O'Connell Bridge - Pt. 29
LC and Seamus arrived at the private airplane terminal at 8 AM; Clarice was flying commercial but the two men were on the corporate jet. “This is the new one,” Seamus stepped on the gangway. This is a Gulf Stream 550; it gives Mrs. O’Neil a little more efficient miles. Plus it easily gets her from London to New York.”
By Dub Wright5 years ago in Humans
Mike Smith Is Dead—Pt. 33
“So,” Marcos put his feet on the next chair. “I picked up an old 1972 Antonov An-12 Cub transport at Aeropuerto Internacional Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero in El Salvator and the hanger it was in was next to this football field. There were a bunch of kids, about seventeen or eighteen years old I’d say, playing. Anyway a ball bounces over the fence and I picked it up and carried to the kid waiting, I thought for sure I was looking into the face of a young Roger Olson. I remembered that face from 1984. The kid said in English “hey, mister,” then he switched to Spanish and asked for the ball.”
By Dub Wright5 years ago in Serve
O'Connell Bridge - Pt. 28
“Sorry to miss tea today,” Clarice seemed bothered when LC greeted her for cocktails. She was dressed in a long, off-white gown with a low cut front and dangling earrings; her heels again made her nearly as tall as LC. “Sometimes the work I do interferes with life.”
By Dub Wright5 years ago in Humans
Mike Smith Is Dead—Pt. 32
They found a tux for Roberto, although it had to be altered and for his wife the same difficulty in building a formal gown. The black tie affair at the mansion was a sought after invite. Roberto and his wife served as door hosts for the occasion. In the late evening Marcos arrived with a beautiful blond woman. Kip was busy speaking with dignitaries and didn’t see them approach. Giles tapped him on the shoulder.
By Dub Wright5 years ago in Serve
O'Connell Bridge - Pt. 26
LC met Seamus for breakfast—a simple fare of small biscuits and jams. “I will set out clothes for your morning tea with Clarice. You remember how you received her yesterday; it’s the same for tea, except she will be more business dressed, as will you. Your lighter suit with a cheerful tie will be appropriate.”
By Dub Wright5 years ago in Humans