Back then, I’d been expecting him to treat me as everyone else had on account of my burdens but he hadn’t. To me, meeting him had felt like a turning point in my life. He’d told me all about the armor which I visualized to protect myself. Now, he was sitting, munching on sandwiches outside the ca...
We worked on a “flexible working scheme” which meant that I could accrue hours or diminish my working day. It was a lot like a credit card and I spent most of the latter half of my months making up for the deficit I’d created at the beginning. Ten years and I still hadn’t learned. Friday night fi...
After next to no sleep, I found myself on the driveway shoveling long before anyone else had tumbled out of bed. Renee seemed to be one of those people blessed with an internal alarm clock. No matter what situation we were in, come seven o’clock there would be a smell of cooking and the clinking ...
“No, and I’m sorry ’bout before.” I didn’t answer. Sam would get ’round to what he wanted to spit out faster if I let him talk. “Mary Goss just accused you of hurting her roots.” I raised my eyebrows. “Can I do that too now? Hell, with all the child snatching, twister causing, and mayhem . . . I’...