He didn't even brush his teeth before going to sleep. He would brush in the morning, or maybe even in the middle of the night if he woke up randomly. But he really wanted to avoid running into someone. He couldn't afford to put on that chipper smile of his...

The casino had it's draw. Time sunk away. You entered. Then before you noticed it was night. When it was night, you need not leave.

Marc did leave early. One thing he enjoyed more than hanging out at the casino was picking up cans early in the morning. That's when people...

Once it was not so late, but it felt like night, on a Wednesday during the purgatory between Thanksgiving and  winter break , when the semester was still technically ongoing, but everybody had already begun studying for finals.

I hadn't realized how early the nights came until crossing that bridge. I...