Mari Bruiser came to an abrupt stop and Mari took her chance to crouch over and take big breaths. She glanced down at her watch and cracked a small smile. Her pace was still improving. She shifted her weight on her knees and winced slightly when she balanced on her left leg. It had been two months since she was cleared to return to duty, but she hadn't. Ins...
Before she and everyone else started calling him C, he went by Miguel. Hearing it the first time surprised everyone. His parents hailed from the Piney Woods and were pure country. How they ended up in barrio was no mystery. A coworker of his dad's took the recent immigrants under his wing and under his roof. The neighborhood was only slightly wealthier than...
~ Yesterday's News ~ He was relegated to the back page of section B in the local newspaper, overshadowed by an advertisement for the Disabled American Veterans. ========================================= BOARD DENIES PAROLE FOR MEREDITH BY ANDREA CASPER * STATESMAN JOURNAL * SEPTEMBER 21, 2009 SALEM, OREGON -- The Oregon Parole Board has denied the relea...
The Vernal Equinox was tonight and the moon was full and bright in a cloudless sky. I was restless and wandered the gardens at a slow and hesitant pace. It was as though I were looking for something and waiting for something, both at the same time. Anticipation was lurking in the back of my mind. As midnight approached, my excitement and restlessness grew....
Beatrice got divorced at the age of 28 because her husband left one day and sent a van round to collect his possessions a week later, and then disappeared. Now, 10 years later, she lived alone and worked as a hospital administrator. She'd always been somewhat overweight. Unkind members of her family called her fat and her older brother called her stout, a wo...
Copyright 2008-09 by Madengineer3 All rights are reserved. Copies of this story can be downloaded for personal use only. Notice: When the word God is used as an expression in this text it is not meant to be blasphemous. It is an exclamation to God, not just a saying. My name is Jim. For many years now I have lived like a hermit. Within the last two mont...
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE Cynthia's Story. I won't hear from her again. I remember the day that she left, she seemed happy enough to be going away for a holiday on her own. As the final boarding call came over the loudspeaker she gave me a light peck on the cheek. "Look after you father won't you? Don't let him go to the pub every night getting drunk. Make sure h...
I have been in a terrible traffic accident. I was waiting to cross an intersection, when a little kid shot out into the street from behind me. He was directly in the path of a car trying to beat the light. I jumped after the kid and pushed him as hard as I could. The car swerved, I was hit, and was knocked up and over the roof of the car. Not that I remember...
We hear a lot of talk about the 'Swinging Sixties' as though nothing happened sexually before or after it. I can tell you the 'Naughty Nineties' did well too. At least being gay was legal in the nineties so once you were over the legal age, the sky was the limit. I had always felt gay even before I knew what "feeling gay" meant. As I grew up there were the...
I would like to thank KatieannBB and Horde for help in editing this story and for teaching me a lot about how to make a story better. There comes a time when a man examines his life to see if it has been well lived. This is such a time for me. I am content and these reflections help me remember that I have had a good life. This is a true story. I was a lat...