“Listen, Sanjay. I have to tell you something.”
Dev’s handsome jaw twisted in discomfort as he said this, while he struggled to wrench something out from inside himself.
“Yes, tell me,” Sunny answered.
His best friend, Dev, had been uncharacteristically …
Sydney wasn’t prepared for how much he missed his daughter after she went away to school, but he missed her a lot. He and his wife Susan had adopted Kim when she was only six months old, a skinny, quiet …
At the onset of a typical uninspiring, earth-shattering day in the life of a fireman, my eyes rose to a bony, red-cheeked character with a large manila envelope tucked under one of his wiry arms. Where he’d come from we …
He’s a reprobate; she’s my friend – I wish she’d come to her senses.
He is Vijay, a good-looking bounder, who, by the happenchance of birth, is my cousin. His modeling success, coupled with his claim that he’ll be cast …
Back in the 70s, whenever I saw a youngish woman dressed for business, a parcel of groceries in her arms after a day’s work, I wanted to be her. I wanted her pantsuit life, a life of accomplishment and purpose, …
Slim sped down the highway with one hand wrapped around the steering wheel and the other gripping his Colt .45. After careening through a long, sloping, tree-lined turn, he hit the accelerator on the last straightaway before entering city limits. …
“Tessa, what a wonderful surprise.” Art flung open the door and his arms. Tessa smiled her way into his hug. “It’s been too long,” he said as they separated. “Let me look at you.”
Tessa was tall and slender with …
She had become my girlfriend, under conditions: the main one being that I never refer to her as my girlfriend. “So how do I introduce you to my friends?”
She smirked — she was good at smirking; her face, with …
Standing on the porch of my mother’s house, I rummaged through my purse for the front door key. A murmur fluttered the air. I raised my head to catch the sound and saw the curtain ripple in the side-light window. Leaning…
“Dad!” The last time I played cards with Parker started out with Sandy yelling and banging on my front door. She never could wait, never had any patience. She didn’t understand that it wasn’t as easy to get up out …