4 years ago
Peace In The House By Karen Singer Kate is a single mother with a seventeen year old son and a fifteen year old daughter who constantly fight like cats and dogs. But Kate has taken a new job that requires her to be away from the house for most of the day, leaving the two kids alone with each other. Since her son is the oldest, she puts him in charge. But... who's really the one in charge? Written in 2003, this was the second story I ever wrote. ...
3 years ago
I watched as a bolt of lightning zipped across the sky, followed quickly by another and then a third. Thunder rolled, starting softly at first as if coming from a great distance and then rising to a quick crescendo of almost earsplitting sound. The wind pushed my car along the road and I cursed myself for being so stupid as to be out on a night like this. If that call hadn't come in, I wouldn't be here. No, that wasn't exactly true. If I hadn't been so greedy and certain that the buyers...
2 years ago
September 4 - 7, 2009: “So, my parents got a boat,” Tracy commented as if this was something everyone did eventually. “A boat?” Heather replied. “What in the world are they going to do with a boat?” It was a Saturday afternoon in late August. Heather and Tracy had not had the opportunity to see each other in several weeks, so they decided to eat lunch at a local restaurant. As they ate, they were catching up on their lives. Tracy shrugged in response to the question. “I don’t know what they...
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2 years ago
I was only fourteen years old when my father died in an automobile accident. My grandfather took me aside and told me that I was the man of the house now. I had no idea what that involved. I told him that I would do my best and he smiled at me. A couple of days after the funeral when things had calmed down I asked, “Mom am I the man of the house now?” Mom thought about it for a moment and said, “Yes dear! You are the man of the house now!” Being fourteen I thought that I knew...
1 year ago
I left Bangalore at 9 am with intension to reach my friends village before evening. My friend Praveen was calling me to his village which is near to Sagar. I wanted to stay there for 3 to 4 days and enjoy the nature, as he was telling me that his village is surrounded by thick forest one side, and another side aracanut trees since I was fed up with Bangalore traffic and life. I had planned this mini trip to my friend’s place, thereafter to visit surrounding places like Jogfalls, Yana etc. The...
2 years ago
(Desi translation of “whore”: ahreh or sharmuta or ehira) When the two older women scooped her up from where she was begging on the street in the Arab city that she didn’t even know the name of, Valqua didn’t know why. The piece of fruit they gave her occupied her attention for a bit. She was very hungry and dirty, clad in filthy rags. After a long walk on the crowded streets they approached the door of a large walled compound, one of many in the city. Being recognized through a peephole, the...
2 years ago
Back in the Bentley, Sir Patrick and Gerry headed back into town. "I'm not sure that I understand the problem," Gerry began. "Surely we just need to explain things to the Minister, and then off we go." "Diplomatically it's more difficult than that, I'm afraid. Let's look at it from his point of view. He's the Trade Minister, you're a Trade Envoy. A transaction occurred. You can't just turn up and say you didn't mean it. Where would that leave your credibility? No that wouldn't...
3 years ago
Thursday morning I started the day following my usual routine. Things were progressing in the expected fashion and I stayed occupied with my work. What was unusual though was the constant smile on my face as I loosely planned out the evening in front of me. Unlike last week I didn't have any emergency calls and it suited me and my plans very well. I didn't want to be forced to call Kay and cancel this evening. I needed to make things move along as I knew I only had Sue for another week. My...
3 years ago
I was the first to get to the house up in the mountain, my 2010 Toyota Camry had a tough time climbing the steep roads, but the area hadn’t seen too much snow this season so I managed alright. As I found the driveway and rolled up to the fairly large log cabin where we would be spending the next week the DJ on the radio warned that there was going to be a massive storm in the next few days. I was glad that I wasn’t going to be driving in that, he made it sound pretty miserable with high winds,...
3 years ago
It was a hot and sultry July day and it was a time in my life when I was able to relax, probably for the first time, having just completed my exams and looking forward to going off to university.I had been off since late June, had become deeply bored and so had volunteered to play for the 2nd eleven each weekend. I was OK at cricket and that particular day we had been lucky enough to win comfortably. And so it was that we had showered and changed and were heading up the gravel driveway to...
3 years ago
Ann and Jonathon had just purchased a new house, at least it was new to them. In reality it was a fairly new house, built in the last five to ten years, or so it seemed. The house sat on five very nicely landscaped acres, with woods beyond the back property line. And, it was almost your typical house, the first floor had a country kitchen, dinning room, formal living room, a great room, and a half bath. The second floor, had three bedrooms, and three bathrooms. The odd thing was an...
2 years ago
The Group House Part One 1. November 10, 2003 Kim opened the door of her bedroom hesitantly, and looked around. She sighed.Arnie was out doing the Leukemia run-a-thon, and Becki Lynn was visting herfolks in Maryland today. How did Kim know this? No one spoke directly to herin a conversational tone. And Denny, thank God, was at a Sci-Fi convention.Kim stepped into the hall, and gathering courage, Kim trotted down the stairs.She bounced her tennis racket against her thigh, and hummed for the...
1 year ago
SCENE opens on Karen, a 20-year-old real estate assistant, as she puts a tray of cookies into the oven. She is preparing one of her new properties for an open house today and wants everything to be perfect. While the cookies bake, she walks through the downstairs to make sure everything is in order: straightening pillows, spraying air freshener, placing a bouquet of flowers on the table, and stacking her house flyers neatly by the door. You can tell the young woman is nervous, it’s her...
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3 years ago
I am a 34 year old middle class overweight white guy that works at a local hotel because the economy and outsourcing to Mexico forced me out of a much better job. Like most hotels it is owned by a middle eastern family, who are very tight and don't want to pay anyone anything. Which leads me to Mary, Mary is a 13 year old Mexican illegal who they let work nights. In exchange for cleaning rooms the owner lets her family stay in a housekeepers suite. She only works at night cleaning rooms...
4 years ago
I had been out of work for quite a while, and money was running short. So, since I was getting a little desperate, I was calling about just any job in the paper. There was one that said just “houskeeper wanted, fair pay, flexible hours” with a phone number. I decided to call, even though I didn’t really like house work, and arranged an interview the next day. I arrived at the appointed time, and was greeted at the door by an older man, perhaps about fifty, (as opposed to my...