Tag / Alcoholism

     It’s been three years as of last Friday.
     Unlike last year, or

I pick up the phone it’s closing time,
Come take this familiar stray away,
It’s been an hour since

The year began with me working the tail end of the holiday season as a “bookseller” at a national chain booksto

Let’s face it most people enjoy having alcohol; it’s the weekend and we should have the right to drink, right?

ICARUS IN ASBESTOS

by

BRIAN A. THORNTON

PRO

I am writing this on January the 2nd, in the year of our Lord, 2007. Before the end of this year I will be dead. I like to

A Gaijin Drunkard in Tokyo
Copyright 2007.

Chapter One

I had two beers left in my thr

When one needs something and one needs that something in something of a hurry, one needs Nearly Right Karl. Accept no subst

I wake up cold. This confuses me as I am fairly confident that I’m currently at home in my normally warm bed. I could

She isn’t there, you know,
in the bottom of every bottle.
She left a long time ago.
And no, it wasn