Memorialized with Lipstick and Dresses_A Friend Indeed_Schedule of Doom_Escaping the Nightmare
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Memorialized with Lipstick and Dresses
I leaned against the passenger door of Dad’s red ’87 Monte Carlo, and I felt unsure of whether to catch my breath or inhale my cigarette. But the wind chaffed my smiling teeth, regardless. The music the car blasted around the Exxon station—the one dad retired from as a cashier—just shied off a ruse. So, Carl ran up to the car, shoved me aside, and jumped half-way inside it through the window.Tonight, I learned Carl started driving the Monte Carlo for the past week, since—well; he took it for a ride that same night after he got the call about Dad—He flipped the hydraulic lift switch on so that...
A Friend Indeed
Walter Waterhouse shut his heavy front door with a neurosurgeon’s precision, making as little noise as possible. Clutching a laptop bag in one hand, he breathed a sigh of relief and extended his free arm across the swirling floral wallpaper to flick the light switch. A soft overhead glow illuminated the vestibule and the silent corridor leading to the rear. Walter tiptoed over unopened envelopes, snaked his way past cardboard packing boxes, and entered the empty kitchen to be greeted by a familiar voice.“I worry about you sometimes.”“You don’t need to worry about me,” says Walter, his eyes ric...
Schedule of Doom
Schedule of Doom I sat down at my desktop computer at 6:10 a.m. with a mug of coffee, “woke” it up, scrolled down to the last thing I’d been working on—and saw something that made me gasp and fall back in my chair. “Please don’t do it,” I heard myself say. I shook my head to clear it from the fog that seemed to enswathe it.On the screen before me was a box with hourly activities I’d planned for that day. (I work for GTFBT—Global Technology for a Better Tomorrow—in the Ministry of Scheduling Department.) But what I’d entered in the two o’clock time slot a mere half...
Escaping the Nightmare
"Living the Dream"May 30th, 2017, "Nicole West," as the announcer calls her name, Nicole approaches Sheriff Daniel Tomeo as she is about to get sworn in as a Deputy Sheriff for the Juliet County Sheriff's Office. She has dreamed of this moment for ten years after her aunt shot herself her Senior year in high school. Nicole has worked as a 911 Dispatcher for seven years at the Sheriff's Office. She has lost 100 pounds and has been relentlessly challenging herself to get to this point. She has done about 100 ride alongs, made friends, influenced all of her co-workers, and created what she though...