Donald rode swiftly on his BMX bike through the neighborhood. He was making a b-lines route on a perfect day for a bike ride to his best friend Mario’s house. They had been friends since they shared lunch in elementary school when Donald didn’t have one. …

“But put on your crown, my Queen, and we will build a new city on these ruins,” Andrew said with complete and utter faith. He felt this in his heart as he stretched his hand to Nadia. …

Where things began to get interesting was when the procedures started. In most cases, I’ve experienced every day up in the hospital with a UTI, the most action I’d get was the constant IV drip and early morning blood draws to test my progress. …

I knew I was in for a stay in the hospital longer than I was familiar with, and I just wanted to make sure it wasn’t longer than needed. As the day-to-day routine became normal, admits the slow dripping I.V.s …

So I would have to be admitted to the hospital. I’ve dealt with UTIs before. Usually, if I catch them before they get too wild, I can get prescribed antibiotics, and that’s that. On the other hand, I’ve never dealt with Pneumonia, but as a quadriplegic with already compromised use…

So to say I’d have regrets about the first trip, a pseudo-vacation in years, would be odd, but this event that I attended put me in a questioning state. Admits the pandemic of late September early October of 2021 we all were living becoming numb to the hysteria. …

They say hindsight is 50/50, and I agree. In my dreams about this trip, I saw it as a nice overnight get out of town where everyone could return refreshed and glad they went. It would be the first trip out of my local area of Chico, Ca, in several…

The only reason he was there was to fuck her. Not the girl whose apartment he was sharing a glass of wine listening to a band she had turned him on to, but his girlfriend of 8 months. …

Traffic was steady up from Santa Barbara, but as Tory looked at his watch, he saw he had made some perfect time on the trip up to the city of Chico where his girlfriend Rose was staying for a summer internship. They had been together for several months. At the…