The afternoon before Mandy's birthday, on a hot day in late July...she sat at home studying the clock...only eight more hours to go and she would be free to do as she pleased. Her mother had planned a birthday party that evening with cake, ice cream and family...the same kind of birthday party that she'd been planning for her for years. For fuck's sake, sh...
Last Friday we had a date scheduled. We were going out to dinner to meet Jay and we had a room booked at a nice hotel. Mandy and I checked in early. We relaxed for a while, sipping a glass of wine before Mandy headed off to take a bath and start getting ready. Just as Mandy settled into the tub, Jay sent her a text. I didn't read the text, I just took her ph...
The following story is set in an alternative world and or universe. It was 2010 in the small town of Shadow Creek and the end of the week was finally here for 18- year-old Lily Roder and her best friend Mandy Meeks. It was Friday afternoon after school. Even though they lived in a small town that didn't bother them. They always found something to do with e...
Mandy Ch. 02: Movies Joe had not forgotten a single moment of his previous Saturday night. He was still uncertain of whether or not it had really happened, though. Everything seemed so surreal and amazing that he wasn't quite sure what to think. His only hard evidence that anything had conspired was the strange note that simple said "See you next Saturday."...
*** When you pass a theater in New York, late on a warm summer night, you see the audience spill from the lobby blinking like animals fresh from hibernation, unfamiliar with this world, still living in a dream. *** Mandy said she needed to get out. The apartment walls were closing in, she said, like that scene in the P...
Part 5. Mandy awoke to an empty bed. She heard singing in the kitchen; Sandra must be in there. The alarm clock said 9 am. Shit, late for work. She slouched into the kitchen and then stood straight upright. Beth held out a coffee cup, already prepared. Sandra was sitting at the small table, digging into an omelet and singing Christmas songs. What stopped Ma...
Brandon felt free driving with the windows rolled down and the radio blaring. He was singing along to a popular song. He stopped at a red light. He strummed his fingers against the steering wheel singing at the top of his lungs. He did not realize a convertible was next to him until he heard a horn honk. He turned off the radio and turned his attention towar...
We arrived at the dorms by 1:15am and Daniel dragged Mandy to our dorm. I opened the door and he took her to her bedroom then laid her on the bed. He walked out of her room and shut her door. We then heard her throwing up -- hopefully in the trash. "So you're Mandy's brother?" "Uh yeah. Sorry about earlier. I was just..." "Tryin' to get some pussy?" I la...
It was a dark and stormy night... OK so it's the moldiest cliché in literature. It also happens to be true. A moonless night during the big 86 monsoons down in Tucson. The meteorologists were calling it a 100-year storm. The kind of heavy rainfall that only hits the desert once a century. Lucky me. The streets were flooded, and arroyos and normally dry r...
Chapter 1 Professor Hughes was looking forward to this experiment. He had hand-picked four of his first-year college Psychology students and brought them out to the countryside, to a very special place. "Is this it?" asked James, a brown-haired theater major, as he peered out the window of the professor's SUV at the large, overgrown estate as they drove al...