The New Puppy

            Rebecca Burkey turned nine in March. She told her mother that all she wanted for her birthday was a dog. Her mother wasn’t sure if Becky was old enough to take on the responsibility of a dog but Becky assured her mother she could. Their agreement was that if Becky didn’t take care of the dog as she promised she would have to give the dog to her older cousin. Then the dog would belong to Kyle, her older cousin by three years. Kyle was not only older, but he was b...

Soldier Boy

            Jill and I were at the airport seeing off a mutual friend. He was my age, nineteen. His name was John and last year I met him at a dance at Jill’s high school. I saw him sitting forlornly by himself. My heart went out to him and I asked him to my prom. I had gone to two other proms but it didn’t look like I would be going to my own. So I took a chance and asked him to go to mine and he said he would.

            Later, I found out that he often liked to sit a...

 Just Flirting

Allison was waiting in her car for her boyfriend Tom. He had gone into the mall to pick up a special battery at the electronics store. Tom had driven and Allison was sitting in the passenger seat because she hated to drive at night in the rain. She also had forgotten to bring her umbrella. She had just settled back to read the book she had brought with her. She was engrossed in the first chapter when the door opened and a voice she didn’t recognize said, “Where are the ...

Shunning Sara

            Sara Hoffman woke up to her mother calling the family down to breakfast.

            “Sophie and Sander, come down to breakfast. The animals won’t wait forever. Your father has been up for hours already.”

            It was always the same wakeup call every morning. But this morning there was a difference. Her name was conspicuously absent from the names being called. It came to her each morning for the past week with renewed sadness. She was being shunne...

                                                          The Invisible Baby

Vince was the produce manager in his Uncle Ed’s grocery store by day. In the evenings and on the weekends he was a Private Investigator. He decided to become a PI because one day, while meditating on his bedroom floor, he became invisible. It was an idea he had had for many years. He thought to himself, that if he meditated on speeding up his molecular vibration, he might be able to achieve invisibility. Much...

The Naked Eye

I have learned how to make myself invisible. I didn’t know how I did it but it worked. I had read somewhere that when water boils, the atoms speed up and the water is changed into steam. I reasoned that if one could speed up their own atoms then one would get an interesting result. I did. There is no death, or more specifically, nothing dies, energy just takes a different form. I applied a meditation technique to myself and after many years of focusing on the intent,...

                                                                Fool Me

            Diane Drake was instantly swept off her feet by the charming man she met at her cousin’s wedding. His name was Gavin Fuller. What better place to fall in love than at a wedding. It was an occasion of new beginnings and starting a life together. She was at the age where most of her friends were pairing up. She was in the mood and ready to find her ‘Mr. Right’.  Gavin had been a casual friend of the gr...

Joe Doe   

The sky was blue overhead and the white clouds drifted lazily across his line of vision. He felt disoriented and dizzy even though he was flat on his back looking up. At first he thought he had taken a walk and fallen asleep but then he got to a sitting position and saw that he was totally naked. His entire body ached and his head throbbed mercilessly. He reached up to touch the spot on his head and it felt wet and caked with blood on his hair. When he assessed his condition...

Love and Lies

Monday - June 13: Forty-five year old Kate Hopewell had gotten the diagnosis from her doctor last week. She had thought about it long and hard. How in the world had this happened to her? She had eaten organically for years now. She didn’t eat red meat. She had never smoked in her life. She did all things in moderation and in fact, lived a life of no excesses. She was totally confused. But now that she had time to process the facts, she had come to the conclusion that “...

 The Concrete Room

           Day 1 – June 4 - Monday: The day started out like any other day this summer. I had finished a year at the University and decided to take a break and work full time to earn a little money before going back to school. I had put off starting school but was glad I finally did it. I was twenty-two years old. Most of the kids in my classes were around eighteen years old. That’s a big difference. So I didn’t expect to meet anyone special in any of my classes. ...

                                                      The Yummy Man

School had been out for about a week. It was the second week in June 1960. I had just finished the eighth grade at ‘Adeste Fideles’ Grade School and this was my last summer before starting high school at ‘Bishop Sherman’. I was thirteen and would turn fourteen in August, just two months away. Decked out in my new red KEDS (I bought a different color every summer but never white) and red pedal pushers, I was ready for...