It’s not the same. That crackle, the warm buzz, the sound not digitalized to perfection!” He sat down on a bar stool, treating the albums like revered treasure. “If you say so.” “Sweet!” Jak held up a copy of Abbey Road by The Beatles, showing Mara....
“So do you. I mean handsome, not beautiful.” My voice caught in my throat and he smiled when I fumbled over my words. I had to get what was going on out in the open, so I just blurted everything out in one run on sentence. “I love you and want to marry you, but I think I might be pregnant and...
A wallet on the small table in the room caught my eye and I walked over to it. When I opened it up, a teenage Marcus was staring at me from his driver’s license photo. It read Marcus Andrew Hart. Funny that I’d never asked his middle name. There was also a photo of us together that had come f...
Gavyn had dropped me off at work and I’d ridden the bus home afterward. The entire day I’d been a mixed bag of emotions: love, rage, and a smidge of hope. I reached out to unlock my front door when I made it to my floor and froze. The door hung ajar. I placed my fingers on...
When her foot hit the lone ketchup packet in her path and she went flying onto her back, Candice realized it was becoming a bad life. The rain of French fries pelting her in the face as she looked up from the floor of the mall food court pushed her over the breaking point.  ...