Tea with the Morning News

Tea with the Morning News Roberta sat at her desk, fighting the tears, and losing. The phone was still in her hand and the dial tone hummed across the Front Office. Her assistant Denise and the mail boy Jojo noticed. They gave each other a look—the look that said, What do we do now?—but they […]

Laughable

“Laughable.” Vanessa dropped the oft-reused manila folder, weakly struggling to contain a stack of scouting reports, comparison tables, and financial projections, with a casual disdain onto her boss’s unusually tidy desk. “You’ve cooked up some genuinely awful trades before, but this is easily,” Vanessa paused to consider whether to check her anger before deciding against it, […]

Mysterious Email in Yuma

Mysterious Email in Yuma Roberta Tipitina looked at the printed copy of the email again. Really? she thought. This is how you want to run this club? This is how you want to work with me? Damnit, Slummings, I deserve better! She wadded the paper as tightly as she could and tossed it across the […]

Codgers look to build on turbulent 2039 season

45. The Palm Springs Codgers rostered 45 players doing the 2039 season. The team shuffled 45 different players through the active roster and still managed to win 76 games, 27 more games than the 2038 season. There was a complete makeover of the team at the trading deadline that saw 11 players from the active roster […]

The Mouse and the Lion

by Mus musculus, the common house mouse ‘Twas an early-October eve in Chicagoland… With the lights out it’s a slow passage through the space that a small hole opened upon behind a dresser that is bolted against the wall. The small, gray – nearly tan mouse; Mus musculus if you must know – not that the […]

Wake Me Up When September Ends…

  Life in the Big Easy – Trendies were not expecting a PEBA Championship. They weren’t even expecting a playoff spot in 2039. The fanbase is too jaded and cynical for that. But, they did, and deservedly so, expect a better record this season than last. A slight glimmer of hope that the team was […]