This was a particularly big day for Joe. He had been planning this all year. Hell, if he was honest with himself, he had been planning this since he saw her in geometry. Joe would remember coming home from the eighth grade that first day and trying to invent a reason to talk to Lindsey. [...]
Month: October 2012
Pause and Circumstance
There were fifty nine cars on the highway that passed the unexplainable and mysterious happenstance. But only four people in three separate passing cars noticed it as they drove by during the copper glow of the evening sun. Mel, in the white 2008 Passat, was wiggling her weight, trying to un-bunch the skirt beneath her [...]
Known You All Along
Dedicated to my husband. Happy anniversary. If I hadn’t met you when I did, I would have met you anywhere else. Maybe this would’ve been us, if we hadn’t been an us already. Except in my case, I’ve always known I was meant to be yours. There is a lot that goes into a [...]
Cross My Heart with Red Stitches
Nell rolled her eyes for the fourteenth time inside an hour, but no one was looking at her face. Being eleven made that a usual occurrence. If anyone was going to take notice of something, it was the way her hair looks so nice pinned into submission from warriors of baby’s breath and aerosol or [...]
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