Just a couple of days later, Ashley found herself standing in a corridor in her school, late in the evening. The place was pretty deserted, although she had seen a few people hanging around for evening classes and other kinds of activities. That wasn't what she was there for, though. Actually, she wasn't quite sure what she was there for. It had just sort-of...
Ch. 4 - The Broken The quilt lay underneath Zoe undisturbed. It had been four hours since her step mother came into her room and said the words that cut through Zoe like a knife. It had been four hours since Zoe had first contemplated taking her own life as a solution for her tragic problems. It had been four hours for her to lie there, staring at the w...
CHAPTER ONE The door closed behind her father, leaving Dana alone in her new room. She heard him herding her mother and siblings away. They had a long drive ahead of them and it was late afternoon now. She turned away from the door, feeling her eyes burn, determined not to cry. She was eighteen for god's sake. Legally an adult. She could deal with being lef...
There was a card on Amy's desk, resting in the home row of her keyboard so she couldn't possibly miss it before returning to work. Her desk was clean enough that any foreign object would be noticed immediately, of course. Amy opened the unsealed envelope and found a card with a sad-looking puppy next to a pile of crumbs and frosting on a plate, a few flecks...
CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, JANUARY 5, 2006 "Tuff-Cuff Disposable Satin Nickel Handcuffs" "Check" "Humane Restraint Nickel Finish Leg Irons" "Check" "Custodial Cuffing Lightweight Aluminum Handcuffs" "Check" "Tactical Hinged Handcuffs with Colored Coating" "Check" Soapy looked up from his pad wearily at his very pregnant daughter Selma, now The Widow...
Leo was drenched in sweat his wrists burned from where the metal of his bindings cut into him. His shoulders stretched back behind his head, ached. How long had he been hung there? he wondered. All around him was darkness yet he was bathed in limelight causing him to squint as he tried to make some sense of his surroundings. His attention cast downwards as t...
After five months by Zoe's count, she felt deeply depressed. She loved being with Azriel but she missed a lot of other things she used to do; like go outside, using a computer, having some alone time. Being around Azriel so much was too much she needed some space. "Azriel." She said one day after diner during their nightly talks. "I need some more space."...
Paradise: The First Day Each plane we boarded was smaller than the last as we flew south for our dream vacation. We had started out at Vancouver International Airport on a huge wide bodied something or other, then changed planes in Honolulu and again in New Zealand until, finally, we took off from some small South Pacific island in a tiny float plane for ou...
Brock Howard and Zoe Byrne finished their glasses of champagne and shared another kiss. It was 8:00pm on New Year's Eve, and the two laughed as they sat on the floor in front of her couch, empty Chinese-food boxes strewn next to both of them. "Think next year will be even better than this one?" Brock asked, his deep voice pleasing Zoe's ear. "I hope so,"...
A month had passed when Zoe came down to breakfast in a simple pair of blue jeans and a large gray T-shirt. She liked to be comfortable, and discovered that no matter what she wore, Azriel looked at her as if she was wearing the sexiest dress on earth. Zoe had grown comfortable here with Azriel. She barely missed her home on Earth. She loved the fact that...