"Brody talks to his brother -- the bad news."
The incessant buzz of his alarm clock usually had Brody up right away, but this time it took him a good ten seconds of flailing before he found the button to shut it off. The team had played the night...
"This most likely does not make sense to anyone but myself..."
Crash.There goes my feelings.Thud.Face down again, in the mud.Rip.There is no longer flesh, only scars.Clank.My stomach sank.Ding.Someone's here but I don't answer.Smash.Face down on the bed.Bang.That's my brain as it implodes.Smack.Across the face for looking back.Crack.The wall breaks through my...
"Good news, bad news, and parents."
© 2011 All Rights Reserved Four weeks later, on a Friday in the middle of January, Ryan was at work but all of her attention was on Lara. "We got it?" Ryan kept her voice down as she gripped the...
"If you read part 1, it will make a lot more sense."
"Hi, mom," Nicole said into the phone, walking into her bedroom, pacing back and forth. "Yeah, I told you I..." Her voice trailed off.I waited patiently, playing with her kitty, Kurt, until Nicole returned."Okay... Yeah... Okay mom, love you too."...
My New Year's Eve social obligations complete I rest. It is 2012 somewhere. Here I recline naked on my clean sheets in my solitary bed eating strawberries and drinking champagne; listening to the fireworks of neighborhood children. A new voice...
"The enchantment of life under the sea"
(a companion-piece to "Ice Elation"; dedicated to sprite, who knows the life of the nymphs and other princesses, and has been owed an ode)* * * * * * * * These be nymphs I see. What sly wizardry,To rapture...
"The begging ceased and in time also the flood stopped except for a small escape of cum from her beau"
He walked in and saw the girls lying on the bed talking. The mood in the room was quiet and sexual and surprising. But there they were and waiting on him it seemed. Carefully he entered and walked around the...
"Brody watches his musician"
"They're good, Langer," Bax shouted over the crowd. "Really good." Brody nodded and watched his musician up on stage. She looked fantastic and the band sounded great. He wondered once more if she knew how happy she looked when she...
"Almost show time."
Ryan's phone beeped as she and Brody walked to the club. She checked the screen and touched the icon to see Evan's text message. I had to promise to come to dinner with Mom and Dad next week. You owe...
"Time to get cooking."
At the sound check, Ryan found herself more relaxed than she'd ever been preparing for a gig. It almost made her laugh. Jason's absence was liberating, and added weight to the others' argument that perhaps they shouldn't replace him. She...
