A Perfect Life_Buddies_A GRAIN OF SUGAR_The Most Beautiful Shell in the World
Catalog Guide:
A Perfect Life
This was supposed to the happiest day of their lives, up to that point, at least. The entire family had been there for their wedding. The vows were exchanged, the people clapped and cheered, the cake was cut, the dances were danced, the music and champagne flowed, the guests laughed, and the couple ran through a shower of rice.The car was decorated by the best man, the groomsmen, and the bride’s cousin. They pulled out of the church parking lot and drove away from the city they had grown up in.It had all started way back in third grade; they were seated next to one another. He noticed her firs...
Buddies
BuddiesJoey opened the front door of the neatly landscaped suburban house and motioned for Ron to enter. Ron hesitated. He had heard the sound of shattered glass when Joey went to the back of the house."It's okay," Joey said. "She'll just put it on my bill.""We shouldn't be here." Ron looked behind him as if expecting a police car to pull up. "Yeah, yeah. Come in. It'll just take a minute."Ron hesitated before entering, regretting it immediately as he watched Joey drop himself onto the white living room sofa like a bag of dirty laundry."What are you doing, Joey? Get what you need, and let's ge...
A GRAIN OF SUGAR
A GRAIN OF SUGAR Rosy was still crouched under the Christmas tree she had just finished to decorate. The comet on the top of the spruce was yellow, of a bright, but also soft yellow, like that….just like that yellow. Suddenly she seemed she was seeing them, as if they were there, under her eyes…..they, the cookies which her grandmother Adele made once every year, the cookies named DUCK TAIL , which she and her sisters, and the all family, could eat from Christmas Eve to Epiphany. Those very special cookies were reserved only for those days of celebration, of joy, of warmth. When they melted f...
The Most Beautiful Shell in the World
The sea churned as the Cadenwww.onedoor.ccce Jade rocked in the ferocious downpour. Running past a cabin boy vomiting, Captain Cuatro yelled to his first mate, “Thar be the rock now, JoJo. Thar it be.”Peering into the distance at the needle of rock streaking out of the ominous ocean JoJo nodded his understanding and ordered the other pirates to turn toward the rock. Drenched in water and with nothing but the beacon of a lighthouse to guide them the pirates lifted and pulled and climbed until the boat lurched toward the goal. “This better be worth it. Or there’ll be a mutiny,” JoJo snarled to Captain Cuatro...