She stepped through the dingy glass door into the shop, the soft tinkling of the overhead bell alerting the owner to her presence. "Kori, is that you?" "It's me, Mrs. Grossman." "Running late today. Kept you at the hospital, they did?" Kori smiled. Sometimes trying to decipher Mrs. Grossman's Jewish came close to having a conversation with Master Yoda. S...
How in the hell had I ever let my so-called friends get me into this mess? I guess alcohol might have been a factor. You know how it goes; you're sitting with a few friends munching on enough junk food to put the Budweiser Clydesdales into a diabetic coma and sucking down beer. Do you have any idea how nasty beer and sugarcoated spice gumdrops taste together...
It all started when my fiancé and I moved that mansion in Hollywood Hills. We were getting ready to marry in a few weeks. We decided that we were going to move into a large house so that when we got ready to have children, we wouldn't have to worry about upgrading as our family grew. My fiancé was a pilot, so he was always traveling. We had just unpacked the...
"Oh God, Chrissie! That was so amazing!" I shook my head, trying to wake up from what felt like a deep sleep where I'd had the most erotic dream. Then the realization hit me that I was laying on a bed, stark naked with my arms around Beth, my best friend. Freaking out, I jumped out of the bed, my bare feet hitting the hardwood floor of the old house that we...
I didn't really mean to wind up down by the river that night; my feet just walked all by themselves while my mind was thinking about other things, and before I knew it, I was at that little patch of trees by the river, looking at the storm clouds roll in. Shouldn't be too surprised, though. It's always been one of my favorite places to just go sit and think...
I had watched the same scene unfold at least three dozen times in the past two years, probably more. It always started out the same way, with a wispy, out of focus, image floating from the east wall of my bedroom. It looked like nothing more than a cloud of thin gray mist. On the few occasions when the image would settle down in one place, it would come int...
While this story is about camp all of the people that are in it are of the legal consenting age, 18 years old. I would love to tell you about my first time with a woman. I was 18 and a camp counselor and a YMCA camp close to my folk's house. I had been a camper there and new this girl for about 5 years. We always got a long great and both were the same age....
"In love with your ghost" - Indigo Girls I couldn't go into work that morning, the memories were too much. It had been exactly one year since you had died in a car wreck on Halloween and my heart and body ached from missing you. My red-rimmed eyes constantly tearing as I watched videos of the time we went to Busch Gardens (remember joking about wanting to v...
The wooden door creeks open, you shiver, the tension rising within you. Closing the door, the wooden beam locked in place, your only means of exit forbidden. My footsteps echo of the church walls as I move towards you. Your fate a certainty. There you lay, lit for my eyes by the flickering pillar candles. I see you moving, I wonder to what end. Thrones...
"I'm sorry, but sometimes opposites don't attract," the words played over in Paula's mind in endless repetition. She stared at the blank monitor, trying not to focus on the ghost from her past. Her ex-lover was draped over Paula's memory like an everlasting overcast. She longed to feel the rays of hope, but none shone through. The sun beams that once colored...