Tag: flash story

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…

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…

Every New Year’s Eve, I make a resolution that I am going to finally find love in the following year.  And at 29, I have failed to fulfill my lone resolution.  I try not to feel too bad about my repeated failure and most of the time I’m successful.  After all, I have had a lot…