This is a short story I wrote in my creative writing class in college. I have spent years rewriting it and editing it and feel that I am ready to share it. When I wrote the story, I was inspired by Sandra Cisnero’s "The House on Mango Street."

Robert Meeks and his family had dinner early, before having their pictures taken, then attended a musical extravaganza. Sally on the other hand having also dined, had her pictures taken too, avoided Robert, and went back to her cabin to phone her friend Regina in Virginia Beach.

Louis Dumkowski has been shot by an angry loan shark and left for dead. Now, he has to find a place to hide before his assailant comes back and finishes the job.

Ricky Martin.

Shania Twain didn’t exactly have a shotgun wedding yesterday in Puerto Rico … but it sure was a pistol — as in what the guards were packing on the beach during the ceremony.

A Puerto Rico National Guard helicopter crashed in the ocean while returning from a drug raid.

What it did for me.

Salt Water.

This will either land me a job in the C.I.A. or F.B.I. most wanted list.
Either way I win.

It happens…