August ### The sun was coming up when Jessie came downstairs. I hadn't yet slept. I'd taken the first shift with Sienna, sitting in the 3rd floors small kitchen, tapping mindlessly through shit on my phone and checking in on the restlessly tossing and turning, rising and puking redhead. If she stayed in the bathroom for very long or was silent, I'd peek in...
I was working the counter at our auto parts store when a man in a suit stepped up and flashed some sort of official looking ID at me. He then asked if I was Bill Evans. "Why don't you show me your identification a little more slowly?" I asked politely. "That was a little quick." The guy scowled as he once again pulled his wallet from his pocket and flopped...
1. The Implant "So, do any of these friends of yours have the implant?" Todd leered at his roommate from the other side of the table. Blair rolled her eyes and pushed away the plate in front of her. Todd shrugged, "I mean, I think I'll find out one way or the other." Blair crossed her arms and glared. "This is why I don't bring friends over any more." "Th...
Sunday Morning, Visiting My Friends We woke up Sunday morning later than usual. Lizzy rolled over on her side and kissed me. I opened my eyes and saw her sweet smiling face. She whispered, "May I suck your cock?' I smiled and said, "You never have to ask permission to suck my cock. I'm always happy when you to suck it." She pulled back the covers. If you...
Chapter 7 Scene of the CrimeCarmen, barefoot and wearing cut-offs and an oversize Cal U. sweatshirt with the sleeves rolled up, was curled up on the couch between her mother Mercedes, and her grandmother, Abuela, when her cell phone buzzed. They were watching an episode of the Ellen DeGeneres Show Mercedes had TIVO'd. Ever since she had come to terms with h...
Chapter 6 You Broke My Heart Lauren was halfway through her egg-whites-only Western omelet when Shane arrived at the restaurant and slumped down in the booth, the same one they'd had lunch in the day before. "Is this booth permanently reserved for you?" Shane asked. "Good morning," Lauren said. "Didn't get enough sleep, huh? No, this booth isn't mine, it'...
Taggart winced when the IV was mated to the port in his chest; the snapping sound it made unnerved him, the sharp sting it made on insertion was just icing on the cake. He was sitting in a large room with what he guessed was a dozen or so other patients - people of all ages - all getting one kind of chemotherapy or another. Each and every one of them was la...
[Author's Note: Thank you for reading this story. If you have not already done so, please read the first three chapters. I welcome your feedback so I can become a better writer.] Emaline, Celia and Nessa decided to take an early Sunday morning walk. They liked to explore the farthest edges of the plantation from time to time. It was the closest thing they h...
Chapter Flavor: "Lime Sorbet" All right, folks, it's time for a little backtrack in time! Let us move back to the Saturday afternoon in early June. (If I remember right, I think it was the sixth.) It was between noon and one, and Hillary Fox was still in her office. Many of her colleagues left the firm earlier for lunch while she stayed behind. Her headach...
College! Nothing like that first day Freshman year. I got a decent scholarship to a college on the other side of the state, and while I convinced my parents to let me take my car I couldn't convince them to say goodbye at home. Our two car convoy makes the five hour drive in closer to six (thanks dad, ever so careful) but we made it to the campus just after...