I like to sing. I sang in church and school choirs all my life and at karaoke nights. But when the Covid lockdown came, my club nights were over, so I was looking for a singing outlet. A friend recommended a singing app to me, and I signed up. You could sing any song youContinue reading “Rock and Roll Lover”
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Labor Day
Every Labor Day, I can’t help thinking of the best and worst 24 hours of my life. The day my sweet angel was born and the worst pain I’ve ever experienced. My baby was scheduled to be born August 1, but the baby didn’t get the memo. Every week in August, I went to theContinue reading “Labor Day”
Song Sung Blue
Brandy was enthused at her first visit to the renaissance fair with her longtime boyfriend Dale. She embraced the merriment by meticulously making period wench and farmer costumes for them. But Brandy was especially excited for another reason. After 10 years together she wondered if Dale was ready to take their relationship to the nextContinue reading “Song Sung Blue”
Accidents Happen
It was an accident. A spectacular accident, but an accident nonetheless. I’m an artist. Graduating from a very prestigious art school, for years, I diligently worked on paintings for the important gallery opening I always saw in my future. But to pay the bills I painted commissioned art for commercial billboards to sell various productsContinue reading “Accidents Happen”
Spring Fling
It’s Spring gala season, when a young woman’s fancy turns to love. Each season young women of the New York Society elite are debuted for young men to meet, court, and marry. Each ball had a mist of romance hanging in the air. For the Viscountess Caroline, this ball season held the spark of anContinue reading “Spring Fling”
You’ll Never Know
It’s a busy night. The Stage Door Canteen is packed with sailors, soldiers, Marines and airmen from nearby training bases. And in a big city like New York, there are an ample supply of young women, called junior hostesses, who are there to talk to and dance with the servicemen. The USO service offered youngContinue reading “You’ll Never Know”
Innocent?
Rachel felt as though she were living in a sinkhole of absurdity, delving deeper and deeper into the ridiculous with every passing day. The problem was her husband Hal, but really what he morphed into… a giant ogre of idiosyncratic annoyance.Trapped somewhere between the twilight zone and the worst fraternity house on campus, she wasContinue reading “Innocent?”
Unhappily Ever After
You may be familiar with my story. I was a poor orphan forced into servitude, and then, with a twist of fate, fell in love with a prince to live happily ever after. That was the real story. The authors embellished it with fanciful inventions of fairy godmothers and pumpkins turning into carriages. That wasContinue reading “Unhappily Ever After”
Failure to Communicate
A few hours into her rem cycle, Norah tossed and turned in her dream. It started with she and her husband sitting across the dinner table. “Carol told me we can get together sometime next week. Can you talk to Bob and make arrangements when you golf today?” Norah asked. He responded in a mumbleContinue reading “Failure to Communicate”
The Paradox Proposal
Jean thought dating Todd required a PHD in contrarian. Despite their seven years as a couple, she still found herself constantly shaking her head like a bobble-head doll about their relationship. He complained he missed her when she worked late, but claimed he wanted space so he could go out with friends. Weekend getaways wereContinue reading “The Paradox Proposal”
SUZANNE RUDD HAMILTON 