Game On

"A goody two-shoes on holiday is shocked by her fascination with the local bad girl."

**Teri**Welcome to another misty noon in Moose Bridge Harbor - the Bridge, as locals say - where the air looks as if it's been jetted from a vaporizer and even a flying volleyball seems to gather dewdrops. Blame the sleep-sucking heatwave back home in the...

Grad Party

"For eighteen-year-old Dawn, life in a small coastal town needs its diversions"

Just because Bay Regional's star senior quarterback, Reid Collins, is going steady with Lissa Brewer doesn't mean he isn't hooking up with me every Tuesday after team workouts. You'd think with all the money her folks have from owning half...

Without The Goodbye

"Dropped signals become blunt instruments"

"All I can say is..."It's carved in the spaces.It casts its honed shadowbetween every lineyou would ever compose.Your goodbyes haven't changed;they're unwritten each time.I've observed all the signsof withdrawal's malaiseto recount in the dark(if my eyes ever close).You directed and...

Drought

"Learning to embrace the season between storms"

On this lush island,Suitcases unpacked,We trade our pallid Greenwich fogsAnd stinging coastal mistsFor drenching,Rainbowed cascadesUnder which we playAnd slake feral thirst.We tangle in solandra vines,Skin saturatedIn tropical delugeYet aflameWith touch sparkedChain lightning.Even the night's deepest thunderCan't suppress desperate whispersWordlessly invokingDownpours...

Rub Him The Right Way 3 – Colors At An Exhibition

"A married man runs into his masseuse at a posh gallery opening, but is it coincidence?"

Except for her hypnotic performance, everything around him was fading. Spotlights dimmed. Shapes blurred. His senses were commandeered by the ferocious throb threatening to burst his strained Burberry flat fronts.Somewhere at the other end of the main gallery, his wife...

The Chat Whisperer’s Letter

"A light little interlude in the tale of Shauna and her 'fairy chatfather'"

The sender's name on the new message notification read 'TheChatWhisperer.'The drink in the recipient's hand went airborne.Shauna, who was still a bit groggy after the intense dream she'd been reluctant to leave, could hardly believe her eyes. Or her luck.Burton?...