Don Waitt

Joined December 2021

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A checkered past as an investigative newspaper reporter, a concert magazine publisher, an adult industry magazine publisher, three self-published books, three police arrests, and way too many pharmaceuticals and cocktails.

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Nothing Moral About It
“Morality Police.” Can you think of any other two words which on their own are harmless but when combined can send the coldest shiver down your spine?
By Don Waitt3 years ago in The Swamp
Tick Tock
Bonnie and Clyde don’t wear watches. So the time we think it is, is not necessarily the time they know it is. Bonnie and Clyde are peacocks. Snow white peacocks. Quite stunning to see.
By Don Waitt3 years ago in Petlife
Parking for Dummies
The other day my buddy Ben told me, rather sheepishly, that he couldn’t find where he had parked his car at the airport the previous weekend. He said he searched each level of the airport parking garage for an hour before giving up and taking a taxi home, to the tune of $90.
By Don Waitt3 years ago in Confessions
999’s Final Report
“Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.” “Excuse me?” “Oh, sorry. I was talking to myself.” “Why?”
By Don Waitt3 years ago in Fiction
Wolfie
Then there was the time I sat across from Wolfie. Sounds like a cartoon character, doesn’t it? But Wolfie was anything but a funny cartoon character. Wolfie was a chapter president for the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle gang, and one afternoon I sat in his house with three other full-patched club members, all of whom were looking at me like I was Bambi who had just bounced into a den of hungry wolves.
By Don Waitt3 years ago in Fiction
The Taxi Driver
My taxi driver was a young black man. I knew he was not American before he said a word. On the dashboard his license, encased in yellowed plastic, read Rashoud Umagradiah.
By Don Waitt3 years ago in Fiction
Pat Perry and the Silver Arrow. Top Story - August 2022.
“Well, that reporter just pulled a Pat Perry,” said a copy editor at the daily newspaper where I worked as a copyboy. I was busy cutting the Associated Press wire printouts into individual news stories for the news editor when the copy editor looked up from his computer screen. I knew he was commenting on a news story he had just read, but I wasn’t interested in what that story was. I wanted to know what a ‘Pat Perry’ was. So I asked.
By Don Waitt3 years ago in Humans

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Pat Perry and the Silver Arrow. Top Story - August 2022.

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