The first time I visited The Farm I was around fourteen and on a retreat with our youth group. The big, old farmhouse and surrounding property are owned by a local church and rented out for retreats of all kinds. There is no actual "farm" per se, meaning the house isn't surrounded by fields, but it is very secluded and surrounded mostly by forest. After that...
Dear Diary, Today Steven asked if I wanted to go biking after school with him. He's lived next door ever since I can remember, but it's been a long time since we played together. A few years ago at school he started hanging out with a different crowd than the neighborhood gang, and I think he thought he was somehow better than us all of a sudden. But, when...
I woke up alone. Brenda was probably at college and Sarah was doing whatever she does. I took a deep breath and stretched, feeling very good about the night before. The more I thought about it, I felt very good about the past six months. I remembered when I was thawed out and my first week here. I had a lot to learn. Now, it's just common sense. One of the...
Gracie didn't notice John's withdrawal as they made their way to the top floor of the Hyatt Regency, where John's bank was wining and dining all their biggest clients and a few others they hoped to recruit very soon. Gracie was more occupied by the Dallas skyline, the room full of people that she had no interest in schmoozing and the soreness between her leg...
Barbaro roared with indignation. His beloved son, Cruz, had been kidnapped by those witches – the de la Tierra sisters. In return for his son – Barbaro was to drop all matrimony designs he had towards Maria and nothing would be said about the kidnapping. He was had. If he mentioned the kidnapping to the authorities he would look like a simpering fool being h...
The man strolled to the diner, taking a seat at the bar. My co-workers chuckled and looked to me. This one was all mine. To them the tall Latino biker looked dirty, homeless. But I'd seen too much in my life to judge a book by its cover. "Hi, Welcome to Sunny Day's diner, have a menu." He looks up at me, his dark eyes staring through to my soul. "I think...
"So, how long have you been out here? Don't answer, it's okay. I noticed you eye-balling me even before I got into the sauna. Don't worry, I get noticed a lot, especially with what I wore in there...or didn't wear in there. It's okay, you don't need to make an excuse, or pretend you didn't notice. I saw you watching me through the glass, and to tell you the...
Elliot had been here before many times over the past year. She had come here to hang with her little group of friends and of course to see JD, who she had been into from the beginning, but only a couple of times she came here specifically looking for Carla. There had always been a connection between her and JD, Turk was easy to get along with, but Carla was...
The BMW chirped as Jessica pushed a button on the key fob and locked it. Her high heels echoed through the garage as she walked past her father's other two cars, an Audi and a Mercedes, and entered the spacious house. She crossed the marble floors and wondered where everyone was; the house was unusually quiet. "Hello?" she called, as she made her way up th...
Sometimes I get a crazy idea in my head. It will just pop in and I can't stop thinking about it. Big or small, it will rattle around in my brain non-stop until I do something. The idea that I got wasn't small, and I knew that had to act on it. Kevin and I had been a couple for seven years, five of them living together. We were committed, not married, but m...