I didn’t know she was coming to the beach, I thought I was far enough from her. My heartbeat jumps through the roof at her sight and my head gets all tangled in my emotions for her. Even though I would like to kiss her my love, she is far from me and she...
My name is Darren Overstreet, a twenty-year-old guy attending McKingley College in Lima, Ohio. I was on the football team; I dated a few girls from the glee club, which the rest of the school thinks is a huge joke. But I love singing and performing so I i...
Day 9 It is in a state of haze and tiredness that I wake up, feeling that I just fell asleep after turning for few hours. The last day is still very much present on my mind, jumping from one event to the other; my shame of being a bad friend to Leet and t...
Mark’s head is against the steering wheel, tears running down his face, equal to the rain hitting against the car’s windshield. He tries calling the number on his phone for the sixth time in the last three hours. Still no answer. Nor have there been an...
The wind pushed the curtains. Dust swirled in the morning light. She snored, lightly. It sounded sweet. Endearing.My head hurt. Clobbered my brain into submission. Sticky eyelids fighting to open and close. _“Make up your mind, mind. Is this day about to...
Friday arrives, and Abbie drives herself to work, telling Tim she will see him at home afterward. She is a bundle of nerves today and keeps admonishing herself to relax and not worry. She is experiencing the same worries as she did over the party at Mic...
Tim always viewed himself as an outsider. He felt everyone viewed him as a bastard in school for not having a father and wanted nothing to do with him. In truth, except for one day in school when he was about seven, no one ever thought about that at all...
I’m having trouble reading you sometimes. First, you lapped me up like a stray dog in heat, but not quite. On nights when we drank together, nothing much else seemed to matter but the moment, until the sun showed us we pushed it too far again and you real...
August does bring many new things into Abbie and Tim’s life. They would have never imagined that five weeks could hold so much. It started out as told, with a new license for Abbie, a car for Tim, and what got to be part of their regular weekday schedul...
It was only about a mile or so to the bowling alley from Kelly's house. In that few minutes, she told me that her job as an Office Administrator really helped with the family expenses, but her mom always insisted she keep a part of her paycheck for hersel...
When I look around the world today I find such heartache and foul play In every country, anger, and pride How could tranquillity here abide? There are those that need and want Still, those that sneer and taunt A tearful man, a hungry child Even a love...
Sixty-three-year-old Emily Wagstaff walked her elderly neighbour Janet's dog and got into the habit of walking the same route at approximately the same time each day. As other people tended to do the same thing, she often saw the same people each day.One...
It was the Fall after I graduated college. My longtime girlfriend had just dumped me. Intellectually I could understand why: she was younger than me, and had spent most of her college career attached to me, and I guess she wanted to enjoy college withou...
Jean and I had known each other since senior School, and we had partied on and off over the years. She was very attractive, slim, statuesque, with bright emerald eyes and long, luscious, copper-red hair. She had been known to take lovers of both genders;...
It was a small pueblo in the Sangre de Christo mountains of New Mexico where Juliana and Desiderio lived. They were artisans. Both had apprenticed with the great jeweler and sculptor Gabriel. Everyone in the Southwest and Northern Mexico knew of Gabriel....
