Her Well Intended Plan_A Whole Lot of Room_Small Acts_Love At First Sight (Sort Of)
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Her Well Intended Plan
“Well, our secret is out now, isn’t it?” Carmen said. Inside her head, the greeting sounded pithy, a lighthearted opening gambit in a meeting that she had every reason to believe would be excruciatingly uncomfortable for both participants, but even as she spoke the words, she wanted to suck them back in and banish them to the mental junk heap where the worst of her ideas languished. The words floated between them, now, like a verbal stink bomb. Revising this woman’s first impression of her was as probable as having leprechaun wait on them.Carmen cleared her throat, adjusted her tone and said, ...
A Whole Lot of Room
Chris came back to me late at night, exhausted and on the verge of tears. I had been editing a stack of court reports and was glad to be interrupted for anything, so I led him into my living room. He collapsed on the couch and hunched over, head in hands. We sat in silence for about two (maybe five) minutes, he clutching his hair convulsively and breathing heavily, I twisting my fingers together.“She left me,” he said. I sat for a moment, waiting for the bile to rise in my throat. But it never came.“Would you like some coffee?” I asked finally.“I don't know. Sure. God knows I won't get a...
Small Acts
Small ActsThe milkman always leaves the bottles right in front of the door, right where Esther could trip over them, so I make it my job every delivery day to move them to the side of the step. I leave the house at six every Monday morning so that I can do this, sliding the basket carefully to the side so that the bottles don't clink together. Today I notice that the hanging basket above the door looks a bit dry. I'll come back later and sort that out. One thing less for Philip to do.It's a warm summer morning, already light, but the curtains are still closed upstairs. It's a bit late, I think...
Love At First Sight (Sort Of)
True Love Isn’t Real. That is my rule of life. If you lower your expectations you won’t get hurt. You don’t look at somebody and immediately fall in love. I guess thatwww.onedoor.cc’s what happens in those old Disney movies. But it’s about more than what you look like. There are other things you need to take into account. Personality Smarts Love for Life There is no such thing as love at first sight. Or so I thought. My name is Karli. And this is my love at first sight story (Sort of) I sat in the middle of a long history lecture in a room filled with angsty teenagers. Not. Fun. I sat in the back trying ...