Traffic crawled to a standstill as the sun sank lower in the sky. Inside his recently purchased, but slightly used, Honda Civic, Jacob sat mumbling expletives under his breath. The sea of brake lights seemed to stretch on forever in front of him with no e...
Casey woke to the warm Florida breeze drifting through one of his condo’s open windows. Rubbing his weary eyes, he rolled onto his side and reached for his phone on the nightstand. Groaning that the time was only quarter to six in the morning, he rested h...
“Strike two!” shouted the umpire as he watched the pitch fly into the catcher’s mitt, just inside of the strike zone. In the dugout, Jason nodded in approval as he glanced down to mark the count in his coach’s book. Fresh out of his last semester of colle...
My eyes burned painfully from the lack of sleep. It had been a long shift, responding to call after call without any rest. I was exhausted, hungry, and downright filthy. My body ached to the point that I just wanted to sit down and never get back up. I st...
The temperature in the shop continued to rise with the mid-morning sun. Ryan had been watching the clock tick, second by second, for the last half hour, begging for his workday to be over with. Stack after stack of heavy bricks were laid painstakingly slo...
