Stranger in a Strange Land, Part 3

It was getting late, and the place slowly emptied out. By 1:45 there was me, Ret, Boss, a couple keeping up an animated conversation around some obscure point about manga that I couldn’t begin to follow, and Santa and Krampus. Ret could have gone home by then, but she found things to do — looking […]

Strangers in a Strange Land, Part 2

Was a time I did not believe in The Inexplicable.  You know, the things that people call “supernatural” or “miraculous.”  Ghosts.  The Fay.  Angels. Mythology. But that was before I started working at Floggin’ Brews.  The Inexplicable happens here on a regular basis, and I’d kind of gotten used to it.   For instance, I half-expected […]