It was a beautiful late summer day. The sky was clear and the bright sun still hung high in the crystal the sky. Over the past few years it had become an annual tradition for five friends to get together for a camping trip in the Adirondack Mountains before the end of the summer. As they grew older and had more responsibilities it became harder for the fiv...
"How did I get myself into this mess" I ask myself as I change the water again. I had no idea a beauty parlor could get this dirty. "When you're finished the windows, you can wipe down and disinfect the tanning bed." Susan barked from the other room. "Shore ting Bozz" I answer. "I don't need any of your smartass back-talk either." Susan retorted. She was...
Charlie cast her eye around the crowd as she nodded methodically to a bloke trying his best to gain her attention. She took a swig of her rum can as her eyes came to rest on a figure at the back of the shed that housed the band. He was here. She wrapped her arm around her body as the intruding man to her right droned on. Cursing her decision to wear the li...
NOTE: 5 hours, 4 states, 3 toll booths, 2 major rivers, 1 extremely long interstate highway, and a whole bunch of Mr. Frost's less-travelled roads . . . all are between me and my eighty-year-old mom, who's been suffering from an increasingly severe list of health problems since early last year. I call almost every day and make the trip as often as humanly po...
“I still can’t believe I am doing this!!” The thought keeps running over and over in my mind as I scan the departure and arrival board, watching for his plane to come in. I find what I am looking for, the time and the gate. Glancing at my silver wristwatch, I see its due in a half hour. “Might as head that way.” I think, I clutch my purse and make my way tow...
Per a request. This is purely a work of fiction. Enjoy. “Y’all ladies care to dance?’ drawled one of the cowboys who had been eyeing Marcie and Tiffany for the last half hour. “Hell yes! I’ve been waiting for you to ask,” said Marcie. The couple disappeared in the crowded dance floor as Tiffany eyed her would-be dance companion. She thought he wasn’t half b...
The road was every bit as rough as I remembered: granite boulders, sandstone, steep, deep ruts, narrow. I was in my new Jeep Wrangler, the first off-road trek I'd made with it. What a perfect place, the old Anthony Lakes lookout. I'd been there once before with my parents, probably twenty years earlier, when I was a teenager with much more important things o...
Yay another chapter! Now that I've established some history I won't jump perspective as much. Please know I had written a warning but it didn't show up. This story is dark in places. So if you are put off by a realistic story this probably won't be for you. This story is true, the original individuals gave permission for their story to be told. All names id...
I have written a trilogy. Each story is perfectly readable and understandable on its own, but if you want to read them in order, start with Charlie then Gary and end with Mark. It will give you a bit more context and continuity. "How did you do on the test?" Gary asked me after our plant identification midterm. "I had the plants down pretty well, but I can...
"I finally had him last night," the tall dark-haired woman said excitedly as she laid out her towel, "and let me tell you, it was worth all the hard work." "You're kidding!" the smaller, but no less pretty redhead answered. "Mmmm, no I'm not. Derek Small is amazing." "So, my dear," the second woman said, putting a phony sultry tone into her voice, "dish w...