I stand undressed before Coby, unashamed, compliant, gone. I’m not here, this is just a hollow shell, my body waiting for him. Waiting.
“Turn around,” he commands.
I obey.
He sits on the bed and studies me, the bruises on my hip where McBane hit me with a bottle when he came by last week, the cigarette burns […]

“You”re going to bake you a gingerbread man with a huge what?”
Rayne kept her face as serious as she possibly could–which was pretty hard considering the topic of discussion. “You heard me.”
Her best friend, Shelly, sent her a questioning look before turning her surprise into laughter. After a couple of minutes of uncontrollable mirth, she […]

As she reached the last step, her left heel snagged in a crevice, sending her tumbling to the street below. Colliding with the unforgiving concrete, she felt the wind go out of her lungs. Gulping for air, she pulled herself up to a kneeling position. Thankfully, there hadn’t been any traffic in the street before […]

It was a dark and stormy night…
Jack turned away from the window in disgust. Now he was thinking in clichés. Wasn’t his life crazier than any novelist could dream up? Okay, so the thunderstorms had lasted four days already, cooping him in the apartment with his lover, Aneurin. Normally, this would not be a bad […]

“End of the line.”
Jerry opened his eyes and yawned.  He hadn’t expected to fall asleep, but the cozy, warm interior of the car and the hypnotizing effect of the snow on the road lulled him to slummberland.  “North Platte?”
Robert nodded, a strand of dark brown hair falling into his eyes.  “Every hotel I’ve seen has […]

Liza stood in the shadow of a doorway and watched the nurses’ station.  She wasn’t familiar with this wing of the hospital and didn’t want anyone asking questions about what she was doing here.  It was none of their business that she’d come to visit a special patient.
When she heard the ever so rich Mr. […]

“Your dad has gone on a diet…maybe you two can have a contest to see who can lose the most weight?” her mother said as she grabbed a drumstick out of the pan with a fork.  The chicken had been swimming in a skillet of oil.
“I haven’t gone on a diet…you put me on one!”  […]

Jack rose from the bed and headed back to the shower. Neither the pounding of the spray against the porcelain, or the steam rising to fog the mirror, managed to blast Amanda from his thoughts. He pulled the curtain and stepped into the hammering, hot water.Letting it sluice over his back, he leaned his head […]