Miss May_A Selfish Squirrel_Time Flies, But Sometimes It Crashes._Real Magic
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Miss May
I jerked my right elbow to remove his hand from my left breast. “Nope. Not tonight,” I told him, pulling my book closer to my nose. A shield to prevent further attacks. Adam rolled over onto his back with a huff, then gave me that wounded puppy look that, much like an evening on red wine, makes me want to laugh, then cry. Five years married and he wasn’t showing any signs of slowing down. I suppose I should count myself lucky. But then he hadn’t had to go through what I went through today. Unless they had started a ‘bring your kid to work’ day in the kitchen where he worked as chef. “How comes...
A Selfish Squirrel
The world I lived in before was hard, but in a different way. Rushing to find the next coffee shop to fuel my belly with the next double latte and danish. Climbing the ladder at my job while kicking it down for those who were climbing behind me. Not giving up my seat to the poor old lady on the subway because I found it easier to respond to emails while sitting. It was cut-throat out there in the big city and I loved it. Not much room to wait for the next bus or worry about someone else's feelings.That was the life I had built and I got there by being, well, a dick. The thing that still surpri...
Time Flies, But Sometimes It Crashes.
There was no conceivable way that either of Angie or I could say with any truth, “We have plenty of time” because we certainly did not on this occasion. But neither of us likes to rush through getting ready. It makes our minds forget some of the things that we should either do or bring with us. We did surely want to get to the airport on time so that we couldwww.onedoor.cc meet up with and say ‘goodbye’ to our daughter Vivian before she left for her vacation in Paris. She had been busy on the weekend with her preparations for the trip, so we could not see her then. You do not want to be in her way when she...
Real Magic
A tumbler of scotch, intended to combat stage fright, was beginning to take effect as The Amazing Felix invited a young woman to join him onstage.A spotlight followed Elyse as she made her way up the aisle then climbed the steps to stand alongside Felix. She squinted in the bright light as she looked out into the crowd. "Have we ever met before?" asked Felix.Elyse had been his assistant for nearly six months. "No," she replied.Felix asked her to "think of a number, any number at all." He told her to concentrate on it and then, after holding a tightly clenched fist to his forehead and grimacin...