"One small battle changes everything."
They made their way up the hill and through the woods to the back of Helen’s house. The smell of food hit Cordelia’s nose as she stepped on the porch, and she realized that she was starving. Her stomach growled...
"Allie crosses the line."
Over the next few weeks I continued to work out alone. It was not as fun as with Josh, but I was determined not to let his absence stop me. I saw his daughter at school almost every day. I...
"“That’s what you want, isn’t it, Phil? To teach the little lady a lesson?”"
The man twisted the business card between his fingers with a terrible sensation in the pit of his stomach, like waves crashing against the rock he’d always considered his marriage to be; erosive powers eating away at it. He was...
"Cold words will nearly always come back to haunt those who say them"
“You seem pensive today," said Christopher. "No, no, I just can't keep from recalling the old days, and how he and I got on. How we never had to worry about paying the bills. I hope he's all right. Probably...
"She actually loves him, but he just doesn't believe her"
"He's a good guy, Conrad. He's no threat to us, and he's nobody gonna be spreading any bad stuff about us out there either. Okay?" she said. "No, it's not okay. You're either his or you're mine. Which is it...
"A story of romance, cheating and betrayal."
Lucy sat alone by the lake with the moonlight reflecting off of the water. Her arms hugged her smooth tanned legs as a tear slowly fell from her face. She was troubled because she knew something was not right with...
"The patience of Job was a life's requirement for this guy."
"Harlan, you don't mind do you. The children do love to be with you," she said. I looked at my wife. She was dressed to kill, but it - her efforts to kill - was not for me; she was planning on...
"Sometimes getting the good stuff takes for-freakin'-ever!"
Sitting in a bar and crying in one's beer is a less than delightful way to live a life. That said, it is a primo way to think things over. So here was Jennifer allowing me, an old flame, an...
"What goes around does indeed come around."
Chapter One (of two) My name is Darnell Lamm, that's Lamm with two M's. I'm a clerk at Bradley's Super Market downtown, or I was at the time this story begins. This is my incredible story. ****** "Okay, Sam, I'm...
"He loves her to the point of pain, but he is just no darn good in the sack."
The main outcome, the way I saw things with Ruby, was that my confidence in my bedroom skills, meager as they still were, was growing. It was eleven o'clock before I'd gotten back from Ruby's apartment. Breakfast had been good,...