Although this was unlike Dent, she wasn’t surprised. She expected that she may have slept for a considerable amount of time, and maybe the boys had left and gone to the bar.As she stood, shaky legged and walked to the bathroom, she smiled, thinking of the next time they could fulfill this desire ...
When I was little, I dreamt of being older. I always thought older meant better. Not of having things, but of doing things, of being a family. Laughing, going, doing, loving, and just being. As I got older, I dreamt of having someone love me. From the time I was about eleven, I never felt as if I...
Elena held her knees close to her chest and rocked back and forth on the bench, her fingers intertwined as her hands continued to shake. After Ryan had opened the door earlier, moving Shellie’s body, she could not stop staring at Shellie’s face. Covering Shellie’s face wit...
One of the books was an absolute disaster, written by someone who was so full of herself she wouldn’t even take my constructive criticism as advice. In my opinion, if an author of a book didn’t know the difference between two, to, too, four, fore, for, or their, they’re and there, they had no bus...
A three month anniversary may be nothing measurable to most people, but to me it was as significant as landing on the moon. Karter was scheduled to leave town and make an appearance at an art exhibit in Dallas, Texas over the weekend. Although I would have loved to accompany her, the tight schedu...
As a child, I couldn’t compare myself to other girls, because I wasn’t like other girls. From the time I was a young, I always stood out as being different – stronger, unafraid, faster, taller, more able, and unwilling to accept the phrase I am a girl as an ending to any type of sentence that sta...
In my experiences with life, I have often searched for something or someone to satisfy a void. When I do, I often settle for something substandard or second rate. I do so because I feel I must fill that void. When I do not look, or do not try to resolve a particular deficiency, I often stumble on...