“With just three days more I’d have just about learned the entire score to Aida.” This song has always touched me deeply. There are a lot of theories about the meanings and intent behind it, though supposedly in a BBC…
She was different and that always attracted me. Compared to the other conservative, mostly cute girls at this small midwestern university, she was more aloof, dressed in a more sophisticated way, and carried herself with a sort of slow moving…
Rick thought his presentation was right on the mark. So did every executive in the room save one: Daphne. He was warned about her, and sure enough she had continually interrupted him, diving into the most minute details. In short,…
She’d been going through the box that had come in the mail from his unit. It had taken several weeks and by this time she was numb to the idea that their only son, indeed their only child was gone.…
He still hadn’t gotten over losing Polly. The heart-wrenching loss was amplified by guilt. He had been driving her car when the drunk driver turned into them. It should have been him they buried. Every night after work was the…
“Oh no!” He wanted to kick himself. He had just taken some bags of ice and some charcoal briquettes out of the cart and loaded them into the back of his truck. He’d been careless though and the wind had…
Tony recognized her from school. He’d always been too shy to talk to her, and now here she was, waiting on his order and he was going to have to say something. He blurted it out so fast that there…
Ten Years Old If he were to be believed, he saw an empty spot next to her during arts and crafts time, grabbed the opportunity, and sat down. If she were to be believed, she saw him wandering around with…
She closed her eyes and felt the breeze brush her cheeks. Save for the chirping of nattering birds and the burbling of the water over rocks it was silent. When she opened her eyes again, the effect was a burst…
We have new neighbors. They seem nice enough, a couple with two teenaged boys. I met the boys and they were very polite. But that is not what I am writing about. Truth be told, our former neighbors, divorced, precipitating…