Straitjackets Magazine

What stands out in Room 221 is Freddie.

Cousin Minnie Pearl, the undisputed queen of country comedy, wore her usual floral, flour sack dress and her famous straw hat with the $1.98

The ticket window faced the street, with a set of double green doors on either side.

The pin was two black cats sitting back to back with their tails entwined

There were at least five of us over a fifteen to twenty year period drawn into her service by the lure of a dime.

These are the war stories one rarely hears.

Somebody raise George Orwell from his grave,

Summer 2018

Spring 2018

Where at a distance you would rise a growing lift to Paradise

An aura of resolve emanated from Annie May that overload all about her. She was of an otherworldly intelligence ...

“Ed, he’s gone. Banjo’s gone. He died this morning,” the woman cried into the telephone. Between hiccups and blasts on a handkerchief...

I learned the willingness to unabashedly shake one's hips was an important prerequisite for the rumba, the mambo, the cha-cha and the samba.

Thinkingitwasthebluesky I'vehitthewall

I miss him jumping up on the stall door to get my attention while I fed the horses.

Angela said Papà wanted to show me his special lamp.

She created a huge roster of additions to my ever-present honey-do list. The list hangs over my head like a guillotine.

I took Amber to the vet, who put him on Valium. It settled him down to where he calmly pees on the wall, the floor, the slider.

When I am old and gray and my bark is not as ferocious

Gregor, the car, wouldn't even let me call him "The Car." He was a Transport Manager.