Category: Fictions/Stories

The young woman stood on the sidewalk outside the building on a warm June morning, looking up at the four gold letters set against a dark blue background. A long-held dream was about to become reality. For most of her life she had wanted to work in broadcasting and in this building she would begin …

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Ann pretended to read as she watched her husband Bryan standing at the living room window looking out at the rain. From where she sat next to the fire, she could watch him without him knowing. Ann wanted to talk about Janice Howard, but couldn’t because she was afraid of what Bryan might say. “He …

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She was beautiful. At least what I could see in the rear-view mirror. A perfect oval face. Fluffy, butter-colored hair. A nice tan. Designer sunglasses… you know, the whole nine yards. Hard to tell much about age with the sunglasses, but she couldn’t be over thirty. The car, of course, was a white BMW convertible. …

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Thomas will tell you adamantly that he’s five years old, although he just turned four last month. He is an amazingly willful little boy, solemn and composed. He’s never thrown a tantrum. The bright spark of exceptional intelligence lights his muddy brown eyes from within, and his habit of flipping his longish brown hair from …

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Coming home from yet another exhausting day of school, she threw her backpack on the chair by the door and kicked her sandals off on the way to the kitchen. She yanked open the refrigerator door to vent her frustration. She grabbed the box of ice cream – Rocky Road, of course – and slammed …

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