People watching Stories

Labor Day had arrived and left and it signaled the end of Summer vacation. As depressing as it was there was small amount of joy from the fact that this was the last year of school. Bruce lingered outside the main entrance awaiting his friends to arrive.He took a seat in the same spot they had occupied since their first day of senior high. They continued to meet there on the first day of each new semester ever since. He h...

The band warms up.Do-Ra-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Doand backwards.They start playing at two o'clock.Canopy frames and tarps are popping up.The beer garden is growing tables, booths, and fence.The soul food trailer has a sign on it that says "CLOSED."People are filling the lawn bowl that hangs from the stage.The Saint Johns Bridge's green arches over shadow us.I sit in the hot sun inside the bowl for a minute.Dragonflies swoop, dart,...