The Diner_Family Dinner_The Memory Of His Face_Silver Linings
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The Diner
Richard Starns was drunk as he stumbled out of the bar. It was this every night or go home to the woman who lived at his house. He preferred the company of Mr. Jack Daniels to her. Mr. Daniels never disappointed him. Yelled at him. Or belittled him. The cold air whipped his face as he turned the corner on Main Street. He kept his head down and started walking slower, anything to slow down his progress toward the inevitable nagging the woman would give him upon his return home. He was deep in thought as he passed the brightly lit diner on the corner. The same diner he passed almost every nigh...
Family Dinner
I felt so nostalgic walking into the vine-covered house that I spent so many years growing up in. I barley return now that the family business is buzzing with crazed clients. As I hand my coat to the door man the sound of the doors shutting behind me echos across the care stone walls. The smell of an amazing cooked dinner lingers in the air. As i walk into the dining room I see that nothing has changed, the same table, chairs, rug, and light fixture."Hello darling." Says a croaky voice. My eyes bolt to the head of the table, seeing my father waiting there in a clean jacket. I my two brothers a...
The Memory Of His Face
I didn't hear the letter come through the door that morning. I heard the barks of our dog warning the postman off. I lay there, not yet willing to let my hazy dreams slip away. Not yet willing to accept the start of another long sleep-deprived day. I groaned as I finally half-opened my aching eyes and swung my legs out of bed. My feet momentarily touched the cold wooden floor and recoiled, before finding their way into the fluffy slippers. This was a well perfected routine, standing and stretching before my eyes came to rest on that same old tired face in the mirror. A face still smeared with ...
Silver Linings
The day Raven Mackenzie graduated, she spotted a familiar face in the crowd. She had not seen her father Travis, since she was about ten. He and her mother Carly got porced a few years before that. Raven once spent every weekend with him, but there just wasn't the same kind of closeness they used to share. In the end, the two of them lost contact with each other. She didn't even know where he was anymore.Carly eventually met someone new. He and Raven got along really well. Noah had a daughter of his own, who wasn't living with him. Alyssa liked Carly straight away. She also began to think of R...