No Lonely Nights_Package Delivered_If Loving You is Wrong_Tag Sale Reflections
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No Lonely Nights
The bell shouldn’t have rung at seven. The mailman didn’t deliver that late where I lived but since there was a chance he had, I sighed and pulled myself off the couch after peeling my eyes away from my television. The fool thing practically attached itself to my eyelids sometimes. “I’m coming,” I called after switching off the TV. I would be back at it right after the mailman if I wasn’t careful and I didn’t feel like waking up tomorrow with a binge hangover. Again. Being a newly christened author, I worked from home. Emails were my steps, typing was my exercise, and my editor was my best fri...
Package Delivered
Fifteen years of marriage proved to be tepid rather than loving as the Wrights drifted further apart. The unvarying abuse, the myriad affairs, the wavering health conditions, and let’s not forget, all the children brought situations to a halt upon Alyse’s hospital release. While attempting this chance at restoration and renewal, Alyse finally recognized her breaking point. She was no longer walking around the great state of Mississippi as the abused wife, nor Matthew’s fool. Mind you, Alyse was no one’s fool. She knew of his infidelities, as he was horrible at hiding them. Alyse once said, “I’...
If Loving You is Wrong
“Are you coming tonight?”Her alluring voice played through the phone, a siren call of smooth, sweet promises laced with unspoken dangers. A drug, one that got my heart high and my brain numb. My mind, at least its more moral aspects, screamed at me to stop before things turned physical.I’d stopped listening to that part of my psyche weeks ago.“I’m thinking about it. She knows what time to expect me, but I can tell her I hit traffic.”My chest felt like a black hole, an intense weight resting on it thatwww.onedoor.cc sucked the air from my lungs. Was it excitement or anxiety? Or both?I wanted this, I needed t...
Tag Sale Reflections
"TAG SALE"He had seen these signs before but never had paid them any attention. This day something in his head said this was a must see sale.Turning down the driveway, following the arrows, he soon found himself parking on the grass with over a dozen other observers.It was an old house. He learned that the origional owner had been a carpenter and had built the house over one hundred years ago. Family had upgraded it over the years but with the death of the last remaining occupant, the surviving family had opted to sell. Thus the tag sale.Almost everything that had been in the house wa...