Dear Lee._The Lonesome Ocean_Did She Say Yes?_Kevin Can't Lie
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Dear Lee.
Dear Lee. There are things I never said to you that I hope you know. When we hugged and said goodbye, I looked into your eyes for the last time. They are the same as they were when you were born. Darting and naïve, but confident. With a look, I told you everything I ewww.onedoor.ccver wanted to say to you. You nodded. Did you understand me? I'll never know. When you were born, the nurses gave you to me and looked at each other with a smug, knowing smile. One of them winked at me before she left the room. I think her name tag said 'Amanda'. Later, before I went home with you, Amanda touched my arm and asked ...
The Lonesome Ocean
Nobody wanted to hear me play anymore. I had gotten some stragglers a few years ago. They were the ones who remembered the days before the music box. I could play for them for hours and they’d still want more. It was hard back then, too, but far better than this.About twenty years ago, companies like Enhanced Sounds and WonderMusic released these machines called “music boxes.” They had every song you’d hear from a room musician, but at less than half the price. My skills became useless in a matter of weeks. For many years before that, I had been traveling as a room musician. Someone could hire...
Did She Say Yes?
Did She Say Yes?“So, you say she was surprised?” Albert asks Stephen.Albert sips wine and spills wine—someone's kid, not his, is crawling under his chair and accidentally hurts his head. “I am sorry,” Albert says to the mother, who is right there, ready to comfort and attack at the same time. “I didn't do anything.”The lady, without a word, takes the kid away. “Fathers are not welcome here,” Albert says. Then Albert looks around to make sure that his son, his Peter, is safely playing in the corner by the toy kitchen.Albert and Stephen are sitting in a café, designed specifically for families ...
Kevin Can't Lie
Amanda, a new mother – and a single one at that - came to the startling realization immediately after giving birth to her baby boy, Kevin, that she was going to be the one and only person on the planet required to teach him everything. Absolutely everything. So, not only was she exhausted from the 24-hour ordeal she had just endured, but also at the magnitude of the job ahead of her.Of course, Kevin could learn some things from other people, but none of those people could possibly teach him as well as Amanda could. Amanda was sure of that.As Amanda thought through where to start his training, ...