Month: August 2021

Sunny stretched languidly, her salmon-colored bangs bouncing down off her breasts, her ponytail just plain bouncing. She had turned eighteen last week, and it was still her birthday month. “I’m bored already.” The four girls sat in their hotel room in the big city. It had been the art museum today. The science museum would be tomorrow. It was time […]

“Okay Takahashi, Aaaarrre Yyyyyou Rrreeeaady?” The announcer sang to a flustered Takahashi. “Uh, yes, I think so.” Takahashi stammered. The studio lights flashed a brilliant blinding white light before a loud obnoxious siren signalled the beginning of the final round. The announcer pulled out his cards and addressed the crowd. “And Aaararrre YYYOOUU Rrreeeaaady!! He sang to the crowd

“You need to make some connections. Business connections, school connections. You’re graduating college in a few years and you’ll need those. David can help you with that.” Mom was lecturing, and she was on a roll. “He’s got money, he’s built and sold a few businesses here in town. He knows people.” she continued.

We stood on the beach as the tide went out, my arms wrapped tightly around her enthralling body, watching the sunset together. “I read somewhere that a sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.” “Hmm, I like that,” she said as she snuggled closer into my chest. “I love watching the sun go down. And I especially love […]

“Mr. and Mrs. Nielson, we have to talk about Summer,” Principal Thomas said. “Oh God, not again,” Mrs. Nielson said. She rubbed her face with her hands, taking deep, uneven breaths. “What did she do this time?” her husband asked.

During my last two summers in high school I managed to land a lifeguard job at an upscale country club that paid twice as much as the local lake. I would have loved to work just up the street from our house, but the town had instituted a minimum age requirement of 18 for insurance purposes. The nice thing about […]

Another Saturday breakfast on my own as Tante Inga fusses with Onkel Horst in their bedroom above. Onkel Horst is dying and has been doing so for months. All of last year I watched as my mother lingered, each day nearer to death, and I have come to Germany just to live it all over again. There is nothing here […]

I am not really the write in a diary kind of person but with nothing else to do here, we go. We arrived last night at my Grams condo. She had left me a little care basket and in among other things was this leather-bound diary and several really nice pens. There was also a note saying she had linked […]

I was partially hidden among the leaves of the mulberry tree, with one arm wrapped around the trunk and the other stretched over my head. My fingers grasped for the sweetest berries, which tended to be among the higher branches. “Sophie! I thought I’d find you here,” a voice said from below, making me jump.

It was the middle of a Saturday afternoon in late August and it was hot as blazes outside. Fortunately, parts of the yard were covered by the shade of our towering trees. Stopping in one of the better shady spots, I slowed the engine on the mower and took a drink from my water bottle before looking at the tracker […]