My birthday is also coming up this week. Mom always made our birthdays a special event. We’d sometimes go to a movie or a play and then go to a nice place to eat. One year she even took me to Yankee stadium to see the Yankees play. Mom would always get dressed up for […]

School on Wednesday went by quickly. At lunch a few of the girls asked where she had been the day before. Julia had anticipated this and was ready. “Oh, my mom actually took me out to lunch off campus yesterday.” It wasn’t a total lie of course, but Julia was still concerned that somebody might […]

Without waiting for his orders Jemima stepped up to the boulder and again mimicked the stance she’d seen, she channeled her energy into her fist and struck the boulder on the other side, the boulder shattered into many fragments from the force of the blow, getting a surprised look from both Jemima and Master Nomas. […]

Ollie sighs as Monica gets up and walks off wiggling her diaper butt. Ollie frowns watching her butt. And thinks to himself. “I can’t wait till I’m older and enjoy myself more. He said to himself before following Monica. lunch was normal, they sat at the table eating and talking. Ollie dropping the subject of […]

She looked up at the extremely tall and large black tuxedo-clad man with a red cummerbund and said with flinty yellow sparks of anger flashing in the irises of her hazel eyes, “I know exactly what I’m doing and have ordered. I have the wherewithal to pay for what I am asking. I have pre-prepared […]

The mind, especially mine, has a habit of blocking out or blurring the routine together in a jumbled haze, because why would we know every single detail of every single thing that has ever happened to us in our sentient existence? We’re not robots. It’s the rough stuff, the emotional stuff, that we remember. The […]

Once the family had finished their meal, Marjorie made Michael and Jamie clean up the dishes while she and Sheila went upstairs. Jamie walked into the living room, where Michael was looking through his Play station collection. He jumped on the couch and turned the TV to the evening news. “Hey I was going to […]

  A few days later, I spent the day with Jacob again as a playmate this time and maybe like last was to the world. We were in Jacob’s room. “You got it?” “Yes” “Good, I cannot last another day wearing training pants and eating small cut foods.” “I know what you mean, the bed […]

  The man drove in silence. Every so often he pointed the gun in her direction, but he still had to shift. Deborah needed both hands to drive. At lights and on straight roads she could reach for the radio or even take a cell phone call, but she generally kept one hand on the […]

We had about half an hour wait until Sandra’s plane came in. I ordered a coffee for myself and a small milk shake for Jason, who really would have liked a coffee but I explained that coffee wasn’t good for little boys and I was pleased to see that he didn’t make a fuss. He […]