Frank Speaking

Frank Tomelli always talked sweetly and with great patience to the elderly patrons of the store. If a customer became impatient, he matched their irritability with even more patience.
Other stock clerks in the grocery department confused this with kissing ass and teased Frank for it.
“She’ll be thinking about that ass-kissing later, I guarantee it,” [...]

Stand and Sing Along

Fearing my knuckles could crack from clenching, I proceed to tear out my hair. Self-conscious of a scalp too scabby to show, I shifted to kicking a brick wall. Pissed that the bricks weren’t breaking, I broke into the equipment yard and chartered a bulldozer. Upset with the situation in City Hall I [...]