Close Encounters Scene 24

I’m not sure I can call this next one a true encounter. It happened about a month after my brother’s birthday. I was riding on the back of my brother’s motorcycle, which is something that scared the ever-loving-life out of me. He drives it like he has a death-wish and even more so when I’m […]

Close Encounters Scene 23

My next encounter happened at a new restaurant that opened outside of town. The restaurant was called, ‘The Flying Tiger Griller’ and it was absolutely enormous. They turned an old airplane hangar into an aerospace themed family steakhouse with dining booths made from sections of old planes. In the back was a large banquet room […]

Close Encounters Scene 21

STOP DISASTER AREA AHEAD (PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK) I received the second shock for the day when he opened the door and said, “And this is my room!” When I saw his room, I could hear my mother’s voice in my head as if she were standing right behind me. “Would you look at […]

Close Encounters Scene 19

When the credits started rolling across the screen, Mark looked at me with that look he gives me whenever he catches me looking at the diaper commercials on TV or lingering on the diaper ads in magazines a bit too long. “What?” I said when he didn’t say anything. I was lying on my side, […]

Close Encounters Scene 18

On the way home we stopped at the drug store to get my prescription filled. I decided I would rather just stay in the car because walking made the insides of my legs itch. While I was setting waiting on my mom, one of those cool new Toyota Rav4’s pulled up next to our car. […]

Close Encounters Scene 16

After meeting Sean, I had a bit of a lull in my encounters. It was about nine or ten months later before I would have my next close encounter. The house that is across the street from ours had been empty for over a year. I remember hearing my parents talk about how the man […]