Her Mother’s Life in a Box

"Can we judge Helen for falling in love with her mother's lover?"

Two days after my mother's funeral, I got a call from a local number that wasn't in my contacts. "Mrs. Lenoir? Mrs. Helen Lenoir?" a deep male voice asked. "Yes, this is her. Who's asking?" I asked. Clearing his voice, he started, "My...

Etiquette Of An affair

"I was unfamiliar with the proper etiquette of sleeping with someone that wasn’t your spouse."

“I haven’t seen you at church much,” I said to the neighbor. She was getting ready to leave somewhere, gracefully sliding down her long driveway. From over the fence, I had watched her lock the front door behind her, and...

Help Me, Help You

"When the neighbours’ daughter grates on his very last nerve, will he show mercy?"

Being sick of my neighbours’ constant screw-ups was an understatement. From the idiot husband calling me the wrong name for the past three years, to the dotish wife’s trees growing over my fence.Believe me, there was much more than that....