Before that night, I’d never really thought about how much things could change once high school ended. I guess part of the reason this idea eluded me was that I’d chosen a college away from my hometown, and other than my best friend Jay, I hadn’t kept in...
I didn’t mean for it to happen. Sometimes things just get beyond our control and nothing you can do will change them. My wife and I married young. I was twenty, and Kassie was just turning nineteen, but we’d been an item more or less since we were kids, a...
The woman lived on the other end of the block from me and she was a fixture of the neighborhood. In the few months since I’d moved there, I saw her almost daily (usually as she worked in the yard or power-walked around the area), but up to that point, I’d...
I was probably around ten when Val moved in next door. She was in her mid-thirties, recently divorced, and looking back from an adult’s perspective, extremely attractive. Unfortunately, at the time, my ten-year-old self didn’t appropriately appreciate thi...
Have you ever had one of those high school teachers who no matter what you did or how hard you tried, were just going to be a stone-cold bitch regardless? Angela Harmon was one of those teachers. She taught math, and because of how small my high school wa...
