The taxi cab made its way through the usual Thursday afternoon traffic. In the backseat, Jennifer Tran looked out at the tangle of cars. The road noise was like familiar music to her. She felt the slight vibration of the motor of the old Ford Crown Victoria. The smell of old leather surrounded her. Her driver had his window cracked open slightly, and the coo...
"Ok, lets play truth or dare." Jenna giggled drunkenly from the back seat of the old Pontiac with Frank. The four of them had went into town for drinks, and they were slowly slogging home in the steadily falling snow. John was driving, and at this rate it would be a while. "I'm game! who's first?" replied Kara from the front seat. She was wearing a tight fi...
The school bell had rung as Michael was walking nervously towards his wife's classroom: he had dismissed his class early in anticipation for today's "extended lunch break." That was Shawn's euphemism for a ritual he made the three of them go through weekly: they would go to a sandwich place near the school and grab a bite, chatting innocently, perhaps with s...
As I headed out to pick up my friend, I keep thinking to myself "I can't believe I'm going to do this." When I told my friend what my plans were after we left the bar she said pretty much the same thing, except after she expressed her disbelief she then said, "Go girl, you deserve to have some fun." The evening started at her place, she had to change since...
Back when I was eighteen and a Senior I worked a couple of hours a week at a small grocery store owned by a nice Asian family. The owners themselves had emigrated from Japan and didn't speak very good English, but they had several kids who had grown up in America, were roughly my age, and all worked at the store. Those are immaterial details, I guess. I onl...
My life before it was a dream that I could not wake up from. Like a little box with walls all blackened out going through the motions, day by day. Then I woke up. I have found my own little slice of heaven. Your backseat. We started just by making out and talking. Reconnecting like one of those stupid movies. Then there were beers in the park and Thai food...
10:57 PM, nearby Winding-river town, 18 minutes and 15 seconds before the crash, The camcorder is switched on. It shows young woman's face, that draws back, and the interior of a car, seen from the corner of the front windscreen against the passenger seat. The woman sits back and begins a cheerful speech while tossing aside her long curly hair: "Hello. I...
She really had meant to explore the area when she had first meet the deputy, exploring backcountry roads and such was something of a hobby. This weekend she planned to pick up where she had left off the first time. If she just happened to run into her favorite law enforcement officer that would be a bonus. She would take the entire weekend to escape the conf...
Last August, hubby dared me to act on one of his little fantasies. In describing it to me, it didn’t sound to extreme and just the discussion seemed to arouse my 41-year-old husband of 20 years. His dare – for me drive out on one of our local country roads, park my car, leave all my clothes and the car keys locked in my car, then start walking for home (abou...
Goddamn-it, I got the cart that pulls to the left, I always end up with the defective cart; the loose wobbly wheel, the one that pulls to one side or the other or the always classic, the one that has lost the grounding wire so every time you touch it you get the bite of built up static charge nipping at your fingers. Are carts hard to maintain? perhaps it wa...