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by Humbie Lowden

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July 30, 2014

Heavy bass lines

A slightly incompetent jazz band, a cell phone with a dead battery and a pair of dice. That's all I've got ('cepting Esmerelda) to keep me entertained. Locked away for days now. It's not so bad, ...


May 08, 2014

Beijing

They guy in Toronto could have been on Beijing, Barcelona or Botswana time and who says you can’t eat a hamburger for breakfast. Go to the Beijing airport in 45 minutes, from breakfast to the ai...


March 09, 2014

Juror number eight

The jury was made up with 11 women and me. I wondered why I was chosen. Why am I the token male. What question did I get wrong. I tried my best to fail the questions to get onto the jury. I went ...


March 09, 2014

Tinkering with time

Woke up with the sun streaming through the window and a boner a pee-on. My lips covered in a thin layer of smegma. I get up make the coffee, feed the dog and put on Songza - disco hits from the 7...


Dan called. I was listening to Thelma Huston’s “Don’t leave me this way”, and sipping on an extra-sweet cup of coffee. He said he was getting nervous about the trip to Shanghai. He asked me if I...


September 25, 2013

Ducky

The appeal of drinking is huge. It makes me feel happy just thinking about it. Give me a tallboy. The highballs are on me. Let’s have a glass of wine and sit by the fire. I’ll get my hands on y...


September 20, 2013

Shanghai

It’s been a while but I’m going back to Shanghai. I’ll be there in October, maybe a week, ten days tops. I’m going to keep moving this time. I won’t have to shoehorn myself out of there like last...


The factory is always hot and humid. The sun goes down and with the machines running, we slip out the side doors, catching a breeze, having a smoke, the night sky looking like a rotten peach, sme...


Big toe got better. Can’t feel it. Never really could. Antiseptic cream, a big band-aid took care of it. It looks tougher now. It’ll have a scar. When I was growing up, there was a family that ...


August 27, 2013

King Toe

Tuesday is garbage day.Comes early. Often while I’m still in bed with my morning boner and sweet wispy dreams, I hear that stinky beast farting and groaning past my house on Euclid Avenue. It cho...


I sit in McDonald’s, writing about my diet, about quitting drinking, about drinking decafe, listening to music from the 80’s and looking out the window at the cheap and dusty cars at the back of ...


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