She came on a Sunday evening riding a bicycle. She rode all the way to the doorstep where I was sitting in the evening sun. "Hi there Buster. I am Lena. Grandma around?" She called before she even had dismounted. I knew that she was coming or, more correctly, that someone was supposed to. Grandma always tried to get what she called a vacation in the middle...
In just three generations, Alejandra's family had been through SO much. Her grandpa Antonio had left Spain as a teenager, seeking adventure and fortune among the missionaries who were colonizing the New World of Alta California. As an early Californio, grandpa Antonio had been given a modest land-grant on which he lived in a small two-room Adobe house. In A...
I slammed the phone down in disgust. My wife had done it again. She had a nasty habit of calling me at work, on my desk phone - preventing me from stepping outside, to argue or tell me off. She knew, while in my cubicle, I couldn't raise my voice or curse or make hurtful comments or any of the other things she insisted on doing from her side. It made for ver...
It's pity that I wasn't present in their marriage ceremony otherwise I wouldn't let it happen...What??? The marriage between them was the mother of all mismatches. They never get along well, usually shouting at each other because dad takes too much care of his mom and brother, while his own children were sort of orphans. In past, he used to beat mom, his wif...
Ch. 8: Dark Night of the Tupperware, Part 2 I ran like hell right around the corner of the house, and nearly stumbled upon Mrs. Bickers and my Mom! At last I found her! I ducked down beneath some shrubs, holding my breath in tight, praying that I had not been heard. My lungs were threatening to burst through my skin, and sweat was pouring down my head. No...
Reading the two previous chapters may provide a more thorough understanding of the story... After the encounter with her grandmother I heard from Jenna two days later. She called to invite me to the wedding of her cousin. She said the wedding was two weeks from Saturday and apologized for the short notice. I said I understood and would be happy to attend. J...
Once upon a time there lived in a tiny village a pretty young woman whom everyone adored—well, everyone except the girl's mother. Delores harbored great resentment towards Red, blaming the girl for the way her life had turned out. After all, she'd had a great relationship with her boyfriend until he found out she was pregnant. And then on the day the little...
I had a "Meet and Greet" at a specialty coffee house. We "met" on a respectable dating website. You've seen it on TV. We're both kind of average looking, but we both look a lot better when we smile. Cheryl liked ivory and I liked ebony. She's ebony and I'm ivory. That was all we seemed to really like about each other. Skin colors. Different interest and...
1. It had been a tiring day. But when I opened the door to our apartment and saw Marianne, lying on the floor reading, much of my frustration was wiped away. She was the most amazing creature I had ever known. We had been together for a year now. I loved her more than ever. We were both 23 and since three months we had been sharing an apartment in a studen...
This happened to me 4 years ago with a girl I had been dating and her younger sister. I was 23 at the time and so was my girlfriend Samantha. Her younger sister Jess was home for the summer from college and what started out as the same type of weekend we'd all shared in the past turned into one of the coolest nights of my life to that point. I guess I should...