"Wake up Daddy." Paige Turner had heard her Father Lonnie grumble and roll over in bed three times in her efforts to revive him. They only had two hours before their Bus departed for Medieval Times. She had never seen her Dad this drunk before. Either his date with the IHOP waitress Deborah went well or very badly. She wasn't certain having been asleep whe...
(all characters are at least 18 years old) ------------ The ride home was long and slow. I felt like I'd never meet another person like Ellie. I never did. So I decided to wallow in self pity by drowning myself in ice cream at the Dairy Queen. The Dairy Queen in my town was a small one so they only had window service and only one window you could get servi...
As he set foot in the café, Marc couldn't help but feel that there was a target painted on him; as if all the patrons were about to turn around and give him a disdainful look, a look that said, "We know what you're here for." It was a weekday morning, yet the place was packed for some reason. Quickening his step, he scanned the room in the desperate hope tha...
I would have to say (others might not agree) that my life was fairly normal for the first twenty-five years of it. A 'middle of the roader' would be a pretty accurate description. In school I never made the honor role, but I never failed a class. In the sports I went out for I usually made the team, but I was never a stand out star. My extra curricular act...
I'm having a very sad day. Billy told me I was fat and that's why he's not that into me anymore. He didn't actually say anything, or use words, but I just knew what he was thinking. He wasn't the verbal kind - instead guess he just worked long hours and paid the bills while I ran the household single-handedly. For years I've been horribly depressed ov...
CHAPTER 1 Six years on from college graduation, Lana, Chloe, Jo and Addison met for their weekly Friday lunch at the Palm Court Café in the heart of the gallery of Palm Court Mall. From such a strategic location they could let fly waspish asides on unfashionably dressed women, wave to people they knew and rev up their hormones by watching, minds racing, the...
My neighbor who lived behind me stopped by the other day. He told me about finding some strange underwear in their guestroom. He explained that they were smaller and not the type he would buy. I suggested he confront his wife, but said he really wanted to know what he was dealing with before talking to her. If there was a problem he wanted to have some evide...
Valentine's Day was the second busiest day of the year, I had heard, after Mother's Day. I couldn't imagine a restaurant more bustling than what I witnessed that late morning, when I arrived for work at just before 10:45, seeing a crowd of guests awaiting the opening of our doors. The business of the day kept my mind occupied, so much so that, when two doze...
Lounging in my apartment, my phone rang, "Rob, what are you doing right now?" Sarcastically I responded, "Well David, right now, I'm scratching my balls. What do you think I'm doing? After working 60 hours this week, I'm exhausted. I'm just laying low and takin' it easy." I heard the urgency in David's voice, "I know it's short notice, but do you want to g...
I did indeed sleep late into the afternoon when the phone rang. "How soon can you be ready?" Mabel asked me. "I've booked a room," she continued before I was even awake enough to answer. "I've stayed there before, not as fancy as the Marriott, but it's clean and spacious enough to party in. I thought we'd go over, check in, and then see if we can have a bit...