Moving to the big City of Charlotte was frightening and intimidating, to say the least. Charlotte is an ocean compared to the small fishing pond I was from. The place where I moved from was, at the time, small and sleepy. I haven’t been back in a long time, and I imagine it’s still that…
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Robots and Skateboards (A Story From The Shadow Elm Memoir)
“There will be murdering robots, skateboarding, and a whole lot of thrashing. And oh yeah, we got Tony Hawk,” is apparently how Marcus Santiago pitched Robots and Skateboards to the Canadian television execs in the late 1980’s. Well, according to the Online Encyclopedia, that is. Robots and Skateboards, created by Santiago, is the radical story…
Stormstrouper Shorts: Three More Flash Fiction Stories
“Finally Found One” My family has stayed on both sides of the beach fishing pier. Weirdly, the pier is about a twenty-minute walk from both sides. I know because I walked toward the pier hunting for shark teeth from both sides. I also look from my beach chair under an umbrella in the sand for…
Stormstrouper Just Collected Their September Todd of the Month
This September, we said goodbye to summer, football officially kicked off, the Panthers beat the Raiders, and the Stormstrouper.com Todds of the Month Club collected another elite member. If you’re hearing about the Todd of the Month, for the time being, it’s just like Employees of the Month, but we at Stormstrouper.com honor individuals and…
The Legends, The Natty Neighbor, And The Introduction Of Isabelle (A Story From The Shadow Elm Memoir)
I had the worst neighbors in the apartment complex for a few months in Charlotte. They were of college student age and acted like they had just moved out of their parent’s house as if their parents were demons of chaos and destruction from a hell house. The duo showed up a few weeks after…
Latte for Norma (Short Story Repost)
Heaven knows that working for the hotel sucks. I might as well throw hell in there, also. I never should’ve told them I could work during Fall break. I’m either too much of a pushover or a damn idiot. Only a few places are open on Sunday mornings in Blowing Rock, except for a few…
The City Of Gastonia Has Two Chronologs, So What The Hell Does That Mean
I will make a wild guess here that most of you have yet to hear of these Chronologs. I didn’t myself until the City of Gastonia and Keep Gastonia Beautiful got them two. So please read on because I want to put these cool things on your radar. First, Chronologs aren’t time-traveling machines, teleportation devices,…
Stormstrouper just crowned another Todd of the Month, and this is who we picked
Our Todd of the throne room is filling up. We’ve crowned several Todds of the Month during January, February, March, April, May, June, and July. Count the months, and that’s seven Todds of the month have already become Todd royalty by the distinguished Stormstrouper.com website, and it’s time to add an eighth crown and another…
My shallow dive into the Daredevil: Born Again villains
Charlie Cox is definitely back kicking ass in the new Daredevil: Born Again trailer from Disney’s D23 that leaked onto Youtube. I watched it and my reaction is that it looks frackin amazing. Born Again is the most highly anticipated new series on the Marvel Cinematic Universe calendar for me. I’ve only seen some photos…
A Few Incidents Inside the Earl Grey Wolf (a story from the Shadow Elm Memoir)
Four of five areas split my time living in Charlotte, North Carolina. The constant four were work, home, The Immortal Elf, or the Earl Grey Wolf coffee shop. Then, my time was split into fifths when I had girlfriends. But that was infrequent because I spent most of my Charlotte living as a bachelor, which…