"Love it.""Me too. Settled then?" he asked and smiled his soft smile.It didn't surprise me that I nodded.After the reading and...
"You left it in the lift," he said. "May I sit down?"His voice was soft. Cultivated. What could I say? The tables were all pretty ...
"Someone he knew?""Yeah. Could be strategy. Maybe he fancies you.""Fancies me? But he's old.""Only old enough t...
The tray didn't just hit the floor. It crashed and smashed his lunch to pieces. Serves you damn well right, I thought. You were staring again.He s...
She was six years old when I first met her on the beach near where I live. I drive to this beach, a distance of three or four miles, whenever the worl...
Time is running out for my friend. While we are sitting at lunch, she casually mentions that she and her husband are thinking of "starting a fami...
Every day I anxiously wait for you to get to class. I can't wait for us to smile at each other and say good morning. Some days, when you arrive on...
He was driving home one evening, on a two lane country road. Work in this small mid-western community, was almost as slow as his beat-up Pontiac. But ...
Several years ago, while attending a communications course, I experienced a most unusual process. The instructor asked us to list anything in our past...
A little girl had been shopping with her Mom in Wal-Mart. She must have been 6-years-old, this beautiful red-haired, freckle-faced image of innocence....