The rust-bucket had already lost the ability to freeze food, if I held the door open too long and overworked it there was every possibility that it could stop working entirely, and then we’d be down to whatever wouldn’t spoil too fast in the cupboards. If our luck was really in it might catch on ...
The parents of the Miller family were great, don’t get me wrong, they made me feel very welcome and made sure I had everything I needed. However, the most amazing thing about the Millers was their daughter, Tasha. I arrived at their house on a Thursday in the middle of the afternoon and did my be...
It had been an otherwise uneventful evening babysitting the Warren kids while their parents went out on a date, they’d gone to bed right on time and the older boy had only come out of his room once asking for some water. No problems. Mr Warren sat in the driver’s seat just looking at me for a whi...
Everything had happened in a blur ever since Father Hanson and his small group of nuns had toured several Catholic schools in my area on a recruitment drive earlier in the year. I’ll never forget the day they came to our school and set up a desk in a spare office for girls to sign up to their pre...
That day had been one of the most liberating of my entire life. Having grown up poor, I had never bought so many clothes all at once, and never from such expensive stores either. All day I had felt like I was in a movie montage, drawing back the curtain of the dressing room and parading various o...
Instead of the hangover I expected, I felt like listening to music and dancing, laughing with my friends, that kind of thing. It must have been one hell of a party, but damned if I could remember anything about it. I was home, in my own bed, so one of my friends must have driven me or called me a...
I didn’t understand at first, what he was doing. I think he would have heard me, that first time I climbed up the ladder, ready to tell him Ma needed a hand moving something in the kitchen, if he hadn’t been about to make a mess. I saw him, lying down, black hat tossed aside, head cocked at a fun...