Stone the Crows

Pffffftttt. Nothing. Pfffffffffffft. Susan, in the bed next to his, reached down to the floor. He heard a click. The lamp went out. Oh. So, electricity, then! The lamp had looked too ancient for that. Oil, surely. Well, maybe Scatterbrook Farm wasn’t quite so ancient. Still, no WiFi….. John lay down in the darkness, nestling […]

Happy Valentines

On Friday, Valentine’s Day, I went out with Tommy. I felt bad about Daddy, home alone. The last woman he’d slept with that I know of (besides me), was Mrs. Trefethen, who was married anyway. He said it didn’t matter, that Valentine’s didn’t mean anything to him, but I think he was just encouraging me […]

Mother’s Submission

Alex Morgan was excited to be back in his home town. He was twenty-one and on summer break from the college he attended. But the reason he was excited wasn’t because he would see his old friends or the town where he had grown up. Over the past few weeks, Alex had met a woman […]

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