"Liz always gets what she wants, one way or another"
The rising sun cast orange-red tendrils probing through the window, casting prism-like hues over the perfectly immaculate walls of my well-planned boudoir. The satiny comforter, still pristine and even, draped over our bodies, still perfectly in place. There was no...
"Christopher is allowed a brief glimpse of the world that he and Olivia have entered"
November 2015< Incarceration. Whoever it was that first devised that word and its meaning, captured the cold isolation that exists inside this institution perfectly. Locked away from the world and loved ones, unable to do anything but wait. Even the...
No teenage boy deserves to see his girlfriend of less than a week getting backshots from her jock ex under the school’s bleachers. Unfortunately, everyone doesn’t get what they deserve.This tone wasn’t foreign to Cal and Michelle’s relationship. Teary-eyed, he...
"Christopher learns of Olivia’s decision, and receives a surprise glimpse into the future"
October 2015< News travels quickly in this place, bad news I found out travels quicker. The whispers and furtive, sideways looks at breakfast time told me that there have been a development. I could imagine what was being said, if...
"Deprived boyfriend takes what he needs from his disobedient girlfriend."
They turned the TV on."What do you feel like?" he said, using the remote to go through the different options of movies."I don't know... Something I don't have to pay much attention to," she said, she didn't have much energy...
"Olivia’s choice."
August 2015< Michael Dolan arrived at my cell door last night. Dolan is or was an infamous London gangster. He was also the psychotic ringleader of a gang of thugs here. He is what they call a ‘lifer,’ in for...
Part oneSpring 2020. The streets were quiet and empty. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky, not even a single line of vapour trail spoiled the perfectly clear blue.My children were playing happily in the back garden and enjoying the...
"Some boys just need pointers... whether they realize and want it or not."
Sitting in his rattan chair, David was lazily scrolling through a comic book, chill music droning from his Telefunken ghettoblaster that predated himself by easily a decade (as the 'made in West Germany' label testified). These moments of careless idling...
"Hitting the sheets when you’re angry can diffuse the tension by giving you a way, an enjoyable one at that, to step back from the situation."
I have been thinking about you on the ride home. We have been fighting a lot, it seems, and arguments have replaced sex. I can barely keep my mind on the road; I have one hand on the wheel and...
