Watching Abby

"An older man is tasked with watching his 18yo neighbor while her parents are away."

It had been a couple of years since the Meyers had moved in next door to me – Jim, Karen, and their teenaged daughter, Abigail. They were decent, friendly folks, for the most part. After the blizzard last winter, Jim...

The air was sweet and thickin a summer's night mistwhen her palm slipped into mineand softly squeezed just onceas if that meeting of flesh said"I already know." Whatever transmuted betweenour own skins and electricityseemed to slip past me because I was still...

Archer

"Dixon was the epitome of masculinity and dexterity…"

When I was seventeen-years-old my dad was transferred to a small town. At the company he worked for dad was renowned as ‘the repairer.’ The retail department store chain that my father was employed at was very successful and had...

Landlord

"Has Deborah gone from the frying pan and into the fire?"

Deborah was a teenager in the nineteen-sixties. In nineteen-sixty-two she was seventeen-years-old. The industrial town where she was raised was hard-core blue-collar. Women knew their place and the bulky men she grew up with were traditional male chauvinistic pigs. That...

The Injustice of the World

"When you are given a gift, enjoy it to the fullest!"

“There they go,“ I muttered to no one in particular, “baggy fucking t-shirts, formless trackies and bloody horrible dirty trainers. It’s disgusting.”I could almost cry.The school run and its procession of drab figures slouch pass my ground floor window twice...