• The Package

    I knew I shouldn’t have agreed to carrying the package onto the plane.  I knew it was a problem, but I was so desperate for money that I agreed.  I now knew I had to run for my life.    Here’s what happened.  I was sitting at the gate, nervous as all hell.  I had never liked flying, but had to make it…

  • The Affair

    I’ve been suspicious of my husband for several weeks now.  The more I pay attention to his movements before and after work, I am pretty convinced he is having an affair.  Which wouldn’t entirely surprise me or even bother me that much.  We had not really had much in common since our children had moved…

  • The Missing Phone

    There was a reason I lived in a small town.  I hated traffic and I hated walking in a crowd.  I could even come close to saying, I sometimes hate people.  I wish it was normal to walk around with an actual personal space bubble.  I didn’t like being jostled or touched by strangers.  On my way home from work today, an…

  • Getting Fired

    I knew my boss wasn’t too fond of fan of me.  Probably because I knew what I was doing and often would send emails with questions he did not have an answer to.  Instead of answering the emails appropriately, he would often act very aggressive.  I think he felt threatened because of the fact I could do my job without much…

  • The Disappearing Act

    On the way home from the grocery store, I noticed the man was following me.  He had been in the store and I had noticed him several times because he had been so close I had almost bumped into him.  It was a weird kind of interaction because he never said anything.  He never smiled, just stopped short…

  • Surgery

    I wondered if it was really worth it.  If Jason was really worth it.  Would he really even love me more than he already does?  Just because my lips are little bit fuller and my stomach a tiny bit flatter?  Will he feel like he can show me off after the surgery when right now he says he is embarrassed to go into public…

  • Suspicions

    My mother-in-law is coming to visit and I’m trying to find a way I can be out of the house for a significant part of the week she is here.  We have never liked each other, never gotten along and the idea of her spending a week in our house is horrifying.  My wife encourages me…

  • The Family

    It was 27 degrees when I found a couple and their two young children sitting on my driveway.  I had seen the four of them earlier in the week hanging around the grocery store and hadn’t really thought much of it at them time.  Now they were sitting on my driveway.    “Do you guys need any help?  Can I call…

  • Todd

    At the time, I thought marrying Todd had been the happiest day of my life.  After being in several debilitating and volatile relationships, but I thought Todd and I had the perfect relationship.  Until his two teenagers came over from staying the last two week with their mother.  There had been no mention of any previous marriage, much…

  • Culinary Dreams

    I had always known that I wanted to be a chef.  It was just my mom and I when I was growing up so after school I would often make dinner for the two of us so she could just relax when she got home.  My father died just after I was born and for the most…