I didn’t get any work done that day, nor did I sleep well that night. The following day was better, but by Saturday evening, I realized that I’d had no visitors, and I began to worry. I’d expected someone to come and try to talk me out of exposing Ella’s...
“What?” I could barely believe my ears. Bob's revelation stunned me; he was not only complicit in hiding Ella's secrets, but he had convinced our neighbors, too? Bob nodded. “Not all of them. Some of them had already decided to… well, to do nothing, I sup...
I stood in front of the office building for almost an hour before he came out. Once, I had wronged him and ruined his life. Now, another had done likewise to me, in the same manner, and almost exactly twelve years apart. I don’t believe in karma, but a pr...
I was relieved that I had finally found a place to live for the school year. I was about to begin my first year of graduate school in a new city, and because of a housing arrangement that had fallen through, I was struggling to find a place to live near c...
A sense of joy and triumph filled Abigail when she turned off the main road and into the neighborhood. For the very first time in her twenty-three-years-long life, she was driving home—to her home. It was just a rental, a duplex at that, but her name, onl...
Michael was sitting by his pool enjoying the feeling of the sun beating down on him. His backyard was his oasis. The manicured lawn, and the landscaping he had done with the bushes and trees, were all designed to make him feel like when he stepped out of...
"And did you see what that little hussy was wearing?" One of the ladies said. "It is just scandalous! Imagine!" Another in the group said in agreement. I had just come home from work at the garage that day and Mom and a couple of the neighborhood ladies i...
