Strangers After All: Part III
Eventually I ran out of energy and tears, although I was still hiccuping tiny sobs every few minutes. It felt like every ounce of fluid within my body had been squeezed out of my eyes. I could hardly stand to keep them open, feeling as though they'd...
Strangers After All: Part II
Deacon and I didn't really speak much as we made our way to this Italian place he was so keen for. In all honesty we wouldn't have been able to if we had wanted. The crowd was so thick on the sidewalk that we pretty much had to slice our own way...
Strangers After All: Part X
After we had all collected ourselves as best we could we put on some decent clothes and got ready to leave. Tabitha had gone to get her car, and, for someone who lives in Charleston on occasion, you'd think she'd be used to having to park a mile away...
Track and Field: The Haunt - Part 3
Conall _What the hell?_ I thought as in awe I watched Lee traipse quickly off stage. That song - good God - I wish he would've told me about it sooner. I'd never seen that side of Lee: bare, open, passionate...in turmoil. He'd left the audience...
Track and Field: Part 12 - Conall
Conall "Mindy!" I bellowed, doing my best to keep from yanking down the orange, party lights I'd just strung. They'd gotten wrapped around my antlers somehow, and now, if I moved in the slightest, a good four yards of the bastards were going to be on...
Lifted Higher: Chapter 1 - "Lips? Of an Angel"
1 "I can't believe I let you talk me into this, Paul." The Airedale terrier just stares through the gym's glass windows and shrugs. He grins at me, and his cute little ears flop as he brushes aside his bangs. Those blue eyes are positively glowing...
Strangers After All: Part VI
All I managed to do after Deacon scurried away with my shirt plastered to his face was this: 1.) Smile like a moron. 2.) Collapse onto Benji's bed. 3.) Laugh uncontrollably, in utter bliss, for five minutes straight. I couldn't keep the joy I was...
Strangers After All: Part IX
Deacon's head was bowed and clasped in his paws. I felt terrible for making him feel obligated to tell me his secrets. I mean, they were secrets for a reason. I think that both Tabitha and I agreed, though, that he'd feel much better once he got all...
Strangers After All: Part VII
Benji told us we were free to spend the night, but both Deacon and I knew we'd been in his hair for too long. We were on a break from school, but we were pretty sure that he had to go to work the next day. The goodbye wasn't as sorrowful as I would...
Track and Field: Part 18 - Black Magic Woman
Lee My arm hurts. It always hurts. The pain's like an itch--like the kind you get in your throat. You can't really do anything to be rid of it. It's always just there. The pain in my heart's the same way. "Come on, son," Uncle Arthur sighed as he...
Strangers After All: Part IV
My first reaction upon hobbling into Benji's home was "Oh God, don't touch anything." The front door fed straight into the living room, the carpet plush and white, the walls black with elegantly detailed molding in ivory shades; a glass-topped coffee...
Track and Field: Part 22 - Hey Now
T_his isn't happening. This isn't happening. This isn't happening._ There was urgent, soul-piercing beeping from somewhere. A weary-eyed Lynx doctor rushed down the sanitized corridor, whipping up the stale smell of disinfectant. He didn't even glance...