A barrel of  oil apparently consists of 42 gallons of crude oil. Refineries then yield that into about 20 gallons of  gaosline . Of that my Hyundai has consumed about 5200 gallons going by the mileage, my driving patterns, and fuel efficiency.

That means this car, at my and my family's...

He left the room in a hurry. With each step he wished he had stayed. But it was too late now. Leaving had made a statement, a statement that would become meaningless the moment he returned. So he kept storming along.

Once he was far enough from the room his steps...

Sullivan was part of the founding team. Or actually part of the team that was contracted to build the product. The pay wasn't bad and he was learning a lot of cool things. Everybody told him that he should be working on his own product, but he liked working on...

She was from Ghana while his family was from Ethiopia . Because she moved here when she was nine they joked that she was more African than him.

When they had first began dating he had just gotten out of the Air Force and returned from  Germany . The two of...

He held the top of the steering wheel with his large hands. In college he had played basketball. Now he drove for  Uber . It was an electric car, although not a  Tesla . But because he could charge the car it meant he got to take home more money...

Packaged sound is not something we question. As in with something like  smoking or  drinking it's obvious that we ought to consider "maybe I shouldn't be doing this" or at the least "maybe I ought to reduce this." But with packaged sound one might not think that. It's just sound,...

Victoria slept just four or five hours a night. She knew this was unsustainable but it was the only way she could both provide for herself and Cameron while also taking classes. One day she would be able to make 70 or 80 thousand dollars a year and she wouldn't...

Nobody could ever hate Larry, a cheery, old man who could get on your nerves, asking for inconvenient favors. But he wasn't the type to sear into your memory. 

The only times he thought about Larry was when he ran into him outside in the parking lot, or if he...

Light casted out the window so bright it reminded her of the lights outside diners. Not the one she worked at, but the ones in big cities. This town wasn't big enough to warrant such a bright road side attraction.

It was Sean's growlights that he used for his plants. Last...

"I was having a quiet night, actually." Sean replied to the question. His arms were crossed, body leaning against the fridge while looking down on Marquis who was mixing himself another cocktail .

"Damn, man, you got some good bourbon ."

"That's scotch ."

"Damn, man. You got some good shit."

While Marquis gulped...