Roommates and The Old Dead Seaman

Omar has just received his Grandfather's cremated remains. He is in a quandary as to where to place them in the apartment he shares with Rock his roommate. There's hardly any place sacred with Rock walking around naked and doing other unmentionable acts at the drop of a towel. Grandpa's urn gets a little wet when Omar and Rock get busy. Excerpt: "I remember my ass getting woke up with a buggy whip across it. 'Boy, I thunk I tol' you to clean out my spit can.' Them the bedroom memories I got." "Well, I feel sorry for you." "Don't feel sorry for me. It made me a tough mother. If I survived Gramps, I can survive anything." "Well...For the time being, I'll put Grandpa's ashes in the living room. I trust you will confine most of your unsavory activities to the bedroom." "A d*ck's gotta go where it's gotta go."

Charles W. Harvey is a native Houstonian and a graduate of the University of Houston. At UofH he studied fiction under the guidance of Rosellen Brown and Chitra Divakaruni. In 1987, Charles was a 1st place prize recipient of PEN/Discovery for his short story Cheeseburger, which went on to be published in the Ontario Review. In 1989 Charles Harvey was awarded the Cultural Arts Council of Houston Grant for Writers and Artists. Also in 1989 he was a finalist in the MacDonald's Literary Achievement Awards. Charles has been published in Soulfires, Story Magazine SHADE, High Infidelity, The James White Review, and others. He is the author of the novels The Butterfly Killer, The Road to Astroworld, and Antoine's Double Trouble. He is also the author of several story and poetry collections. He also writes for the stage and screen.