CHAPTER SEVEN: Thanksgiving and Palm Beach Their time together sped by. In what seemed like days, the months of September, October, and much of November had passed. Billy read from a letter from his mother that he was required to attend a family function for the Thanksgiving holiday. Tommy remembered his promise to join his aunt and uncle. Both realized tha...
Readers: Warning. This story takes a definite turn away from happy. Read at your own risk. * I woke up the following morning before my alarm clock went off feeling well rested. I shouldn't have been surprised really. The Fine Arts Presentation ended before nine, and Jesse's mother wanted him to go directly home. Without any opportunity to be alone, especi...
My best friend Adam's parents had gone to Atlanta for the weekend and we were watching a porno flick in their living room. We'd known each other since we were five and at twenty we were best friends, always in and out of each other's houses. Adam's brother David had married a few years earlier and now Adam was the only one left at home. His father owned a on...
From Chapter 2: "I kissed Phillip because I like him. I am a dry sponge of a soul ready to give myself to all who show me affection and acceptance. I never meant to hurt you, Jonah. I never will again." For those interested in my 'momentary lapse' vs 'betrayal'...here is the backstory to fill in all the details of where we all went wrong. Part 1 We met at...
It was very cold and it had already snowed a few inches by the time my flight arrived at Denver International. It was early December, 2013. I had planned to be in the area for 10 days and had meetings scheduled up and down the I-25 Corridor, from metro Denver to as far north as Ft. Collins. I elected to stay at an all-suites hotel in Thornton, which I assume...
I first met Joel Herndon in the local comic book shop. I was running through some back issues of Marvel Team-Up and he stood beside me and began rummaging through Marvel Premiere. We both politely acknowledged one another before resuming our respective searches. After about a minute, he said, "Oh, snap! I've been looking for these." "What did you find?" I...
Previously: "Want to watch a movie or something?" he asked. "Sure." I went and sat down on the couch while Michael stood with the remote and cycled through Netflix until he found something he wanted to watch. I expected him to just sit next to me, but after he sat down he pulled me over to him until he was lying down with me as his little spoon. My skin t...
Thursday night, we went out to see "Mad Max", which I liked but she didn't. It was kind of cool to have her on my arm, and we encountered a few people that either knew her or knew me. Some of them raised their eyebrows like "THOSE two are together?" but seemed to accept it. Operation Beard was working. Dad bought the furniture Thursday and had it delivered...
It was Monday of the last week of a six week management training seminar. I was hired during my last year of law school by this large multinational corporation that I had no interest in working at beyond the two year commitment I'd made. After undergrad, I spent two years in the Peace Corps in Africa. The conditions in the village I was assigned to were appa...
Chapter 1 The sun sets fat and aflame into the plains of the west, dying a slow death. Leagues of scrub brush, rocks, and dust stretch to the horizon, beyond which lie the cities of Ekron and Joppa. To the north is Geba, and to the south is Bethlehem, those two perched upon the hilly ridges of the Judean Mountains just like I am, here, imprisoned in this c...