Tag: coffee

• Burning the Tracks

  

  A red glow washed over the amorphous designs on the table. Thin, bent tubes housing neon bordered the metallic siding. She sat in the hollow space carved out by the fish tank wall wrapping behind their customary booth. He hadn’t answered her question, the question she had asked him her to pose. She knew he…

  Dan Metzger

  July 14, 2017

  Fiction, Scene, Short Story

  CD, coffee, companionship, creative writing, diner, Fiction, fondness, friendship, goodbye, love, mixtape, music, parting, past, playlist, relationship, sentiment, time

• The Facebook Bump In

  So you’re on Facebook, right? At the very least, you have Facebook open somewhere in that pile of programs you’re forcing your computer to run. You sat down at your desk over an hour ago, calm and collected, your mind clear. Minutes later, you’ve involuntarily become Alice, skirts plumed out like an umbrella, floating in…

  Dan Metzger

  August 26, 2015

  Essay, Humor

  coffee, eBaum’s World, Facebook, funny, humor, internet, joke, productivity, satire, social media, YouTube

• A Cabinet of Coffee Mugs

  My father was a quiet, weathered man. Ignoring conventional rules you find in writing manuals, it would be accurate to use the old cliché that he was akin to a closed book. He was reclusive, but pensive. He had been places. More accurately, as he used to tell me, places had visited him. He did…

  Dan Metzger

  April 7, 2014

  Fiction, Scene, Short Story

  coffee, coffee mugs, creative writing, father, Fiction, memory, past, son, story, travelling, writing