HIS mother looked behind him as though expecting to find her hiding there. As if Poppy’s hair could ever be hidden. “She went home,” Beck said, and ignored the pull of disappointment in his chest at the memory of seeing her off. He’d done the right thing. A relationship be...
It all starts with me looking at my bedroom mirror. It is oval, antique and beautiful. I stare at it as it reflects my pale freckled face and my dark curly hair. I smile at it out of habit and my dimples appear on both sides of my chubby cheeks. I look down at what I’m wearing, expecting to see...
Tossing my head back as Victor spun me about the dance floor, the far off rafters converged on each other like the stones in a kaleidoscope, and the fiery candles of the chandelier coalesced into a flaming circle. When the song ended, we plopped onto the Victorian sofa. The three of us sat ther...
“Hey Joshy, check the luggage will you? I can hear something loose back there.” As Joshua climbed over to the back seat to rearrange our things, a New York cab cut in fronts of the SUV. Mathew pounded the horn aggressively and took immediate evasive action. “What the hell are you doing up there?”...
HE FELT like a randy teenager. Was acting like one, too. But he didn’t break the kiss or ease back. He couldn’t. Not if there was an earthquake. Not if a fire broke out under his pristine cowboy boots. Not even if someone whipped around the corner and asked what they were doing. What they were do...