Abby Wants a Turn

"Abby had befriended Ashleigh and heard stories about Jack. Now she wants an evening with him."

Three weeks had passed since Ashleigh left to go back to school in Illinois, and I was sitting in a meeting for what was essentially a “customer first” group (follow the Supervisor and Cashier stories for more on Ashleigh). This group’s...

Breaking Through

"Sarah can't pull herself away from her thesis paper."

The tapping was incessant. Irritating. Ken glanced up from the football game to watch her. Sarah's pink fingernails drummed against the desk. From index to pinky, over and over, as if the typing motion would will her thesis into existence....

Eclipse

"After a lovely first date, Quinn goes back to Scarlet's apartment."

Quinn hadn't really thought about what sort of living space Scarlet might have. Oh, he'd seen what Shadi had, but that was as much a mask as the blonde wig and the vapid expression. Scarlet was still something of an...

Ties That Bind

"Sometimes history isn't as ancient as you think."

Marcus Avilius looked up from the scroll he was deciphering when the woman walked into the room. It was tedious work pulling the hidden messages from the benign looking scrolls, and the fact that the messages were routine status reports...