Stars in our Scars_Taste Memory_THE ESCAPE_FIVE BUCKS PROMISE
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Stars in our Scars
Stars in our Scars“Papi.” Deenoh came in, panting, tears drenched his eyes and pink crumpled his face. “Yes, son?”, he replied after a round of seconds, in a calm, unruffled voice. He was preparing dinner in his favorite blue apron. Deenoh heard the pleasant clattering sound of frying pork. “She,” he sighed. “She failed me!”, he blurted into tears. “She slathered my love away!”It was a rather tranquil night, Melanie, his mother, was out of town for official business. She’d be home in a couple of days. It is evident that the man in his royal blue apron can’t hand his ears as of the moment. He t...
Taste Memory
The dog days of summer were fading, and with it came her 22nd birthday. Fat, noisy drops of rain punished the single window of her basement apartment. A single rotating fan was too clogged with thick gray dust to be of much use in the damp stifling unit, but she ran it anyway, hoping to trick her mind into thinking she was being cooled. Early in the morning she had risen to complete two errands on the town’s bus system which was free of charge to all students at the local university including her. She returned before 9 a.m. with two grocery bags and another three month dose of birth control i...
THE ESCAPE
THE ESCAPE“…and then the barefoot princess agreed to wear the silk slippers that the shoemaker had made to measure for her” “ But did the princess marry the shoemaker?” “ Sure, they got mawww.onedoor.ccrried and lived happily ever after” “ Where did they go to live? Don’t tell me that the princess accepted to live in the little shoemaker’s house…” “ But no, they lived in the princess’s castle” Martha couldn’t take it anymore, her jailer was becoming more and more demanding with the story she had to tell him. She had been kidnapped after school and taken to that sumptuous home where her kidnapper lived wit...
FIVE BUCKS PROMISE
FIVE BUCKS PROMISE His head was too big for his body. His big hollow eyes stark and his cheekbones tight against his dusty pale skin. Crouched on the ground covered with yellow dust, this 10-year-old waited for the puppy to crawl out from under the low raised platform of his neighbor’s home. He smiled as he watched the puppy eat the gravel. How fun it would be to let it fight with the puppies of the other kids on the ground he thought. He was pretty sure his would wallop the daylight out of every other. “Looking for dust?” Bailey said. He looked up to see Bailey, her hair oiled and braided in...