"Ok, see you next week Alex. Enjoy your vacation!" "Thanks Steve, don't let the company go broke while I'm gone!" Alex Johnson had it made. A great job as a President of a Fortune 500 Company, she had enough money to do whatever she wanted when she wanted and she had a boyfriend that loved her very much. She was going to incorporate two of those things for...
“My god Simon! Don’t you get it! You need to get a job! I know you are waiting on auditions but you have to bring in some money in the meantime!” Tawnya screamed at her boyfriend who was lounging by the pool. “Babe! You just don’t get it! Acting is a lot harder than it looks! I am spending all my time reading scripts, going to acting classes, meeting with pr...
Once we had cleaned ourselves, and the table up we locked up and headed back to the other shop. Once we arrived Marie and Isabelle were full of questions, and I left Alice to tell them what it was like, and that she was giving up teaching to run it with me while I went into the office. There was pile of post on the desk and as I went through them, sortin...
Lilith Pinkerton sat inside the Bridgewater State College library, watching Adam Warsaw as he fought back tears. She'd only recently told him that she loved him. The short, blonde-haired and green-eyed South African woman bared her soul to the handsome young African-American scholar who stole her heart. Adam struggled to find the right words, and in the end...
I was getting ready for my semi-monthly golf game with the guys. The phone rang and it was Tom. He said one of the guys had cancelled and we needed to find a forth. He was going to make some calls and suggested I do the same. We play a little 18 that is out in the country. It's very old and almost always empty this way it allows us to play at our pace and ju...
Jake had made his way to the kitchen realizing that he hadn't eaten all day. Reaching for the frig the table was suddenly groaning under the weight of all the food that was stacked high upon it. Shaking his head he had to try and remember that he had Jinns now all he really had to do was think about it, poof it was there. Sitting he was deep in thought when...
In the summer of 1983, my Dad drove me two days by car to western Massachusetts so I could interview for admission to College. As a Missouri girl who believed the northeast to be our modern Mecca of enlightenment, I was surprised by the lackluster hotels and restaurants we encountered there. The prophetic dullness of New England was nothing like the sizzling...
Ch 2. The First Interview I pulled into Arkham parking lot ten minutes early for work, something I did rarely. I got out of the car with a brand new notebook, and a piping hot cup of coffee. My heels clicked on the wet pavement as I made my way towards the sliding doors of the main entrance. I wore red heels with dark blue jeans and a light pink turtleneck....
The Apartment Moving out of the small place he had lived in for the last four years was a little traumatic for Taylor. Part of him wanted to stay in his little hole in the wall and keep the world outside and part of him wanted to explore all that Barbara offered. Packing up some boxes and seeing what few possessions he really had startled him a bit. He rea...
"It's so hot." Laura grumbled, turning over another patch of dirt as she weeded her parent's flowerbed. "Someone must have forgotten to give you the memo that Florida is hot in August." Sarah, Her mom replied. They had been out working together for most of the day, and had both suffered under the same heat. There was nothing for it though, as yard work was...