Chapter Five - Revelations and Redheads Don't Always Mix Chiara freaked out and jumped up from the bed. "TWINS?! You're brother and sister? What the fuck is going on?" Marc looked at Chiara nervously, "I should have told you last night, I'm so sorry Chiara. God I'm such an idiot." Chiara slapped Marc with all her strength then went and punched Annie in th...
A minivan. Kelly couldn't believe it when they told her at the counter that she was going to be driving around all weekend in a minivan. Normally she wouldn't have cared, a fact that was painfully obvious by the absolute piece of shit that got her to and from college each day. The car was a heap of random parts, countless minor fixes, mismatched paint jobs a...
[This is a sequel to A Hot Day in December, which takes place a few weeks earlier, and a prequel to A College Tryst, which takes place the following month.] ***** On a cold Saturday in February, 1975 Michelle Hanley and Judith Weinberg went to see Bonnie and Clyde at a revival house, the Cinema Village on 12th Street. The two were sophomores at the City Co...
This is the second installment recounting the goings-on at Charlottesville High School, in which we learn how Sandy Wright follows Natalie Bettis into the bed of two of her students. It's a restless faculty; several more teachers may be in line. As always, all story characters are 18 years of age or older. * * * * Four of us, Keith, Dave, Richard, and I...
Stan learned plenty about promotional sales from his father. He often marveled how his dad had managed to be so successful in the no-computer era when he began. There were no websites. Only mailouts and signs. Yet his father was the old-fashioned salesman. He did it with hard work, long hours and shoe leather. Stan had inherited is father's work ethic and in...
"I don't know, you know?" she said. "It's like, inertia. Or, I guess that's being harsh. It's just hard to give up someone when being held by them still makes you feel like everything is alright." She stopped and turned to me, looking at me expectantly. We'd been walking so close to one another that she instinctively put her hand on my chest to stop us from...
"Yes, but let's not forget that I earned that special night out," Angelina responded. "Hmmm...refresh my memory," asked a quizzical Harry. "Oh, c'mon, Harry. It was that time when you met that hick superintendent from Texas at a conference in the city, got drunk and invited him to tour Riverdale so he could see what kinds of administrative ideas he could a...
I can't say I wasn't hurt. I can't say I wasn't humiliated. I can say I was quite embarrassed, but also extremely happy for her. John finally said," Look, Robert... Tracy told me a little of her story, and why you and her decided to try this. I just want you to know that I have no designs on your wife. I had a troubled childhood and needless to say, I don'...
In my dream I am naked, enjoying the sensation of the summer sun on my body as lay upon a towel. The towel beneath me is warm, soaking up the heat from the boards of the wooden deck, and soft against my sun-kissed skin. I can hear birds chirping melodically back and forth in the trees that shield my yard from the neighbors. A pair of Monarch butterflies walk...
"Thanks for all your help," Junie said to Anna and Matt, who'd spent the evening helping her clean up the apartment and pack so she could move out the next day. "It's no problem," Matt said. "You didn't have much, anyway." "Yeah," Anna said, "we're happy to help." "You said all the boxes go with Callie's stuff, right?" Matt asked, setting the last box dow...