Tag: flash story

I had always been nosy growing up and it only intensified when I became a teenager.  I started babysitting when I was fifteen so I could make some extra cash, but I also wanted to learn as much about my neighbors and friends that I could.  My favorite book growing up at been Harriet the Spy so I knew…

My favorite food has always been Chinese.  My family did not go out to dinner very often and I always chose the nearest Chinese restaurant when it was my turn to choose where we ate.  Now that I am living on my own, I order in Chinese food every Sunday night.  Every once in a while I splurge and take myself…

I always thought Simon drank to have a good time.  We met in college and he was always the life of the party.  The two of us became inseparable during college and now that we’ve graduated, I’m wondering if his drinking stems from a problem he has never told me about.  Next week, my boss and his wife invited us for dinner and I am concerned on how Simon is going to behave.  Will…

I didn’t have a very easy childhood.  I never knew my mother and my father was often working multiple jobs to keep food on the table.  I think my mom died shortly after I was born, but at 21, I still can’t get my father to tell me exactly what happened to her.  I never had the ‘cool’ clothes and usually…

I had been excited to start a new school when I started high school.  Middle school had not been kind to me and I was excited to start a new life.  I had grown my hair out to as long as my parents would let me and had worked all summer at the nearest McDonald’s so I could save some pocket change…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…