Tag: short story

“A little birdie told me it was good luck,” he whispered to me handing over the rabbit’s foot.  I wrinkled my nose as I took it from him.  The ratty, old rabbit’s foot as good luck?  I never understood why he carried it and didn’t quite understand why he was giving it to me.  I had…

“No,” I thought.  “This not happening.  No, no, no.”  My car was breaking down again and at the worst possible time.  I was finally getting away from my husband and there was smoke flowing freely from under my hood.  The Xanax I took before leaving the house was quickly wearing off.  Like fast enough that it…

I hated sleeping anywhere but my own bed.  But on the weird side, I also really loved to go camping.  If I was really honest with myself, when I was sleeping outside, that’s really when I got the best sleep.  I was nervous to go camping alone, but so far the benefits of a solid night’s sleep outweighed any feelings of sleeping outside.    The best…

The entire time we were in the car, I had my eyes closed.  I wanted to remember every sound of the laughter and excitement bubbling over from our trip.  Laughter in our house was few and far between so I wanted this moment to last as long as possible.  I knew as soon as we got…

My mother hated dancing.  Which was a bone of contention in our house because my father loved nothing better than dancing.  He constantly was moving his body and sometimes there was music playing, but most of the time there wasn’t.  He danced when he was making dinner, he danced while he was doing the laundry and…

“I owe you a gin,” Martin said.  “You left the restaurant early the other night before I could make up for spilling your first one.”  I smiled at Martin before turning back to my computer, hopeful he would leave my office.  There was a reason I left the restaurant early and a reason why I spilled my first…

I’ve never had a favorite movie.  My friends all thought I was crazy that I never watched television or movies, but there were so many things I wanted to do.  Television and movies only got in the way of my life.  I tightly scheduled myself time when I got home from work so I could…

To this day, I will never understand what people could possibly be so interested in the game of football.  I tried to get interested and I tried to pay attention when I was watching the games with friends, but I never could get it.  Start.  Stop.  Start.  Stop.  Commercial break.  Start.  Stop.  I made the mistake of…

When my best friend’s wedding was delayed for no fault of her own, I knew they wouldn’t go through with it.  Less than twenty-four hours before the wedding ceremony was going to take place, a tornado had partially destroyed the church.  Instead of moving the ceremony to another, undamaged church or even the courthouse, Fran and Derek decided to put the wedding…

As I kid, I always loved going to fairs and it didn’t matter if it was a state fair, county fair, a fair in the mall parking lot.  I was obsessed with the food, the smells, the rides, everything about fairs had me hooked.  I begged my parents to take me whenever there was a fair nearby and sometimes they did, but more…