The kind that have goo inside_The Gift of a Fresh Start_That Rainy Night_If You Can't Promise, I
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The kind that have goo inside
There was a man named Valentino who found Valentine’s Day sickly sweet. He really wanted to make an impression on the girl that he liked. He wanted her to know how much he liked her, which was a lot. He liked her in the usual way, of course, the way that imagines talking to her and making her smile and eventually holding hands and then kissing and getting warm and naked under covers and having sex and then taking a shower together or a bath with candles and also, and perhaps most of all, having chocolate things with ice cream afterward and falling asleep but not before brushing their teeth and...
The Gift of a Fresh Start
[CW: kidnapping and domestic violence]It wasn’t the first time I had received someone else’s mail. Our mail carrier, Mr. Jacobs, was a friendly old soul but the neighborhood consensus was that it was time for him to ride his mail truck off into the sunset of retirement. It was a rainy Friday evening in mid-November. My students were getting antsy for Thanksgiving break and, let’s face it, so was I. By the time I left the building, my car was the only one sitting in the school parking lot. I tugged down on the hood of my raincoat, wind whipping around me, and made a mental note to switch to my ...
That Rainy Night
Monica could feel the typical sixty-five degrees of a hospital as she walked down the hallway. She wore her Nike Air Max sneakers so her short, quiet steps would go undetected as she passed the nurse's station. Her Coach rain boots were her first choice, but she did not want her presence announced by the squeaky-clean hospital floors. The nurses were busy trying to switch shifts and transition patient charts to one another. Monica walked to room 212、 Monica peered through the blinds to see the patient lying still in the hospital bed. She did notice the steady, rhythmic cadence of the electroca...
If You Can't Promise, I Can't Tell You
Minnie: “Hello?” Ann: “Hi, it’s me, Ann." Minnie: “I’m getting ready to go to Chloe’s house. What’s up?” Ann: “I have something I want to tell you.” Minnie: “Okay, what is it?” Ann: “Well, I want to tell you, but first you have to promise me you won’t get mad.” Minnie: “What?” Ann: “Yes, promise me, or I can’t tell you.” Minnie: “I can’t promise something if I know what it’s about. I’m reasonable. I won’t get mad. Ann: “But prwww.onedoor.ccomise.” Minnie: “You’re being ridiculous. Just tell me what it is. Hurry up, I don’t have much time. I told you, I'm going to Chloe's. Ann: “Minnie, you know you lose you...