Ted put the car in reverse and turned off the headlights. He backed up a good five hundred feet more, putting an even larger space between he and Emily, who was now waving frantically as she ran. He saw her silhouette in the headlights of the other car, confident that there was no way she'd reach his position in time. At this position, he was even farther fr...
Dear Shoeblossom, I've been enjoying your "Taped Confessions" and kept my phone recording in my winter coat during a walk in the woods with my new girlfriend! My favorite "taped confession" was that crazy one from LETTER FROM SHREVEPORT, by the way... Thanks, Dante "Spyri, are you all right? Did I go too far?" "(Sob) No, you (sniff) were wonderful, I j...
Several years ago, we were visiting 'family' for a week long vacation. They used to live in the country, but urban sprawl was catching up to them and their property was starting to be surrounded by housing developments. To get away a bit of quiet alone time almost everyday Sam and I would go for a walk in the woods near their house. Just behind the pine tr...
Kira is a beautiful girl. It has caused her problems at times, but then there are times it has worked in her favour. Take the innkeeper - it wasn't the first time he had sent her to the soldiers who come into the village. Kira didn't complain, most of the time they were nice, some even gave small tokens or coins. Besides it was better than serving in the mai...
My friend and I made a bet in October 2000. I bet that the Mets would win game 5 of the World Series. Unfortunately I was wrong. The bet we had made required me to walk nude in our local park along a path that is about two miles long. I was allowed to drive there dressed, walk a ways down the path and strip down to only my socks and sneakers by the highway o...
Lisa's sneakers pounded rhythmically against the packed earth of the trail, the greenery of the trees whizzing by the corner of her eyes. She held her gaze steady ahead, about 100 feet in front of her. She would run until that tree, she told herself, then she could take a break. She pushed against the burning in her legs, stretching her muscles and pumping...
The truck slowed to a stop on the side of the road. Sighing in frustration, Skye shifted the truck into park, rolling her eyes as she looked at the steam rising from under the hood. Once again, she hopped down from its height after opening the door, walked to the bed of the truck and hauled out the jug of water. At least this time, she knew the problem. As s...
Marna, having finished with her chores, set out towards the woods as usual. Today was her eighteenth birthday. She decided that she had better make it an extra long walk in the woods today, to give her mother and father time to prepare the special birthday dinner she knew was coming. She did not look back, but Marna knew that her parent's eyes were on her, e...
Lessa combed her hair and stared at the letter from her Grandmother's lawyer. The note was three weeks old and was informing her of her inheritance of her Grandmother's house. Nova Scotia was hours from Lessa's busy life, but the lawyer was insisting she had to come and sign the papers for the old A frame house in Asheland. Growing up Lessa remembered the le...
I guess everybody was at work because the roads sure were void of cars. I passed one here and there but that was about it on the trip out to the field. There was a small dirt area near the beginning of the field of weeds and that's where I parked. I just sat there at first. Mostly thinking of a way out of this project. I could lie. I've had that thought more...