The next morning Donna and Todd were again sitting at the breakfast table reading when their father walked in and joined them. “What are you two up to today?” he asked as he poured a cup of coffee in his travel mug. “Same as usual,” Todd answered without...
Donna sat across the kitchen table from her step-brother, Todd. “What a nerd,” she thought to herself. “He wears glasses that look like coke bottles, reads computer magazines and prefers playing on-line games better than most anything else,” she thought....
My mom was the youngest of three sisters and she had stayed at home and taken care of my old widowed grandfather until he died, so she was thirty-three before she married. My dad was fifty-six. He had been married before and after fifteen years of marria...
Bell’s three best friends sat silently the whole time, wrapped up in her sordid confession. Now, at its end, they stared at each other, waiting for someone to speak. No one seemed to know what to say.She couldn’t blame them. She, Belladonna, their life lo...
My friends had no idea what it was like to live with someone who appeared to have dissociative identity disorder. Sure, they had seen Kai’s stone cold moments, but Sarah and Bonnie had never seen his manic episodes. They had no idea just how mentally unst...
When seventeen year old Layla Levy discovered that her brother was the biggest, baddest, psycho in the little town of Dark Grove, she could hardly believe that he was capable of hurting anyone. Kai had always been a difficult sibling to grow up with, but...
“So what happens next?” My stepbrother’s voice was soft but concerned as he lay beside me on the rumpled sheet, running his fingers lingeringly through my hair as I lay in a post-coital, post-orgasmic glow. It was Friday afternoon, the last of our amazing...
Tuesday had been hot and sunny, the best that Yorkshire had to offer. Deeply in love and desperate to please my new boyfriend, I had risen early, showered and re-shaved my armpits and legs just in case any close physical contact became possible. I had dre...
As late Sunday night became early Monday morning, silence descended throughout the cottage but for a long time I couldn’t sleep. Instead, I lay awake in the darkness with images of every romantic movie I had ever seen rushing through my mind, along with e...
“Amy… Amy… “ Jake’s soft voice coming from behind my head gradually penetrated my dreams and brought me slowly to my rather befuddled senses. The sun was streaming brightly through the gaps in the curtain. It was morning. But where was I? What was Jake do...
The street I lived on could have been anywhere in America. Lush trees lined it and cars were often parked below them instead of in the driveways. Most of the time, the driveways had been turned into basketball courts or used as parking for bicycles.My fam...
“...Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits...” “Right!” I replied, grinning at Jake’s self satisfied expression.”Let’s see how good you are with this...” It was a perfect Saturday morning and we were playing ‘Name that Tune’ as my stepbrother Jake drove the two...
"That was detestable, young man. Simply horrid. It's beyond me how you children act nowadays. I'm appalled. I have no idea what to do about it." We were in Mrs. Longtree's small sitting room that was right next to her bedroom. In this old Victorian home t...
I was always wanting to grow up and be like the neighborhood teenage girls in my neighborhood. They were always flirting with all the young guys in the development. One day, they were just kids playing with Barbie dolls and a few summer’s passed and they...
Bob was speechless. He felt he had just crossed some sort of line. Charlie and Paul climbed out of the pool, picked up their flip-flops and t-shirts and headed toward the gate. Over his shoulder, Paul said, “We'll be at my house... if you get time for us,...
