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“Wake up sweetheart. It’s the first Saturday in December! Time to find the perfect Christmas tree!” Melanie groaned softly at the cheery sound of Jason’s voice, and burrowed deeper under the covers. She peered at the clock through one squinted-open eye. Seven-thirty! On a Saturday! What possessed the man? “Come on, honey. You need a good breakfast before Continue reading The Perfect Christmas Tree On Friday morning I rolled over and looked at the clock; it was only 5:00 AM. I was relieved to see I had another hour to sleep so I pulled the blanket over my head and tried to drift off. I could hear the shower running in the background and tried to tune it out. Continue reading My Life As I Knew It – Chapter 6 On Tuesday I checked the balance on my one and only credit card of that time and found out it wasn’t as bad as I expected. If I was going to do everything right this time around, that meant I needed to start new in every way including investing in a professional wardrobe in order Continue reading My Life As I Knew It – Chapter 5 After spending Sunday with my brother and Damian, words cannot begin to describe how depressed I was to not wake up on Monday morning next to Greg in the bedroom of our New York apartment. Damian came home from Santa Monica Sunday afternoon and would not stop talking about the “awesome” time he had with Continue reading My Life As I Knew It – Chapter 4 I was happy to hear that Damian was going to be gone Saturday night. His brother who lived in Washington was visiting Santa Monica with some friends and he invited Damian to spend the weekend with them. I just assumed his brother was paying Damian’s way. I was meeting up with Jim that night and Continue reading My Life As I Knew It – Chapter 3 About an hour later I was pulling in to the parking lot of the Dana Point Harbor, about forty miles south of Fullerton. For the first few years I lived in California I came to this spot often to get away from everyone and everything, do some thinking and just be. I’m not exactly sure Continue reading My Life As I Knew It – Chapter 2 Everybody thinks about going back in time and what they would or would not do differently. You can protest all you like. You can say ‘there’s no point in thinking about it’ or ‘the past is the past, move on’ or ‘if I had done things differently I may not have met my wonderful husband/wife’ Continue reading My Life As I Knew It – Chapter 1 Roses have the softest petals, like silk. They smell sweet, and they’re elegant flowers. They’re not just pretty. Plenty of flowers are pretty. Roses are elegant. And they don’t need baby’s breath to complete them. So I’ve noticed from working in a flower shop. Valentine’s Day is the busiest day in the shop, to no Continue reading A Rose By Any Other Colour… There are two pages to this story, so be sure to click on page two down at the bottom. Once upon a time, there lived a girl named Gina. Gina was a beautiful, sweet girl, full of life, music and above all, laughter. She loved to laugh. When she laughed, her bright green eyes twinkled (if Continue reading Gain Kelsie and her husband, John, were sleeping in her parent’s old bedroom. Her mother couldn’t bring herself to sleep in the bed she had shared with the love of her life for thirty-five years. It was too soon after the funeral. She decided to sleep in Kelsie’s old bedroom. Suddenly, the sound of a deafening crash Continue reading The Mirror |
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