I could have flown. But flying at Christmastime is always such hassle. Full flights. Expensive flights. Everyone trying to sneak aboard double their allocation of carry-on baggage. All tripping over one another. Chaotic airports. And even after putting up with all that, I would still have needed to hire a car at the other end. So I decided to drive. I set...
A small invisible creature with pointy ears, a long nose and very long fingers stalked the halls of the hospice where Mary Graham sat dying. She wasn't dying precisely at that moment. She was knitting a sweater for her son, but she had been given a diagnosis of terminal cancer from her doctor two months earlier. Now, she sat in a wheel chair in a sunny windo...
In a little less than 24 hours, I will become the happiest man on earth. I wasn't always a happy person and my family and friends can attest to that. As I neared my thirtieth birthday, I was convinced that life held very little joy for me. I was successful, hard-working, well paid – and miserable. The corporate world held little joy for me, but what it did...
© 2011 All rights reserved Author's note: Here's my story for the Winter Holidays contest. I hope you enjoy it, and votes and feedback are welcome and appreciated. Thanks to LettersfromTatyana, MugsyB and Annanova and my husband for encouragement and beta reading. ================================== Joe Naylor stared at the department store display. "I can...
Chapter Four: "The Rest of the Story" It was the morning of graduation, a Saturday. Silva was upstairs getting ready for the day. Jessie and Jenny were seated at the dining table. Jessie says, "I'm so proud of you Mom. You did it! And you're at the up of your class." Jenny smiled. Jessie goes on, "I've been thinking about the future." "Oh, this shou...
"I never get any love," Paul frowned. "Aren't I cute, too?" "Dude, you are asking the wrong person," Andy laughed. "My point is that you get laid," Paul laughed. "A lot!" Andy continued to smile at his bandmate. "Like you don't?" "I don't," Paul huffed, his cheeks puffing out like that of a chipmunk. When he made this face, he looked 12 years-old and gu...
Tyler hated that he was wrangled into playing Santa at the stupid little kiddy party that his mom's work sponsored every year. It was hard to say no to your mother, especially when she is recently diagnosed with inoperable cancer. She used the most annoying tactic on the earth to get him to agree . . . I might not live to see another Christmas. Tyler hated t...
Liam sighed as he pulled his car to the curb and parked it a few houses away from the massive house party he was pressured to go to by his friends. It was a Friday night and they were getting together to celebrate finishing their economics midterm. He didn't want to go out because he was tired. The night before, he had stayed up pulling an all-nighter to e...
I would like to thank bunnydoll15 for editing my story. She is the greatest editor and a fantastic friend. Please check out her writings too. Thank you so much!!! I hope you enjoy this long chapter and please remember to vote and supply feedback! Suddenly the vision I saw was no longer sparkly. I heard a faint chime from the clock, almost as if it was a gre...
There's a saying that birds of a feather flock together. There's also a saying that opposites attract. It's hard to know one's correct. In the summer of 1978, Noelle Silver and Greg Daniels discovered that it's a blend of both. Noelle's order was always the same, one slice cheese pizza, small caesar salad, and ice water. It was an order Wilfredo was happy t...