After a summer bonfire, newly coupled teens Josh and Sandy found themselves walking hand-in-hand on the moonlight beach in front of the old Jacob mansion on the hill. “I bet I can hit one of those windows,” Josh picked up a rock and lifted his arm. “No, please don’t,” Sandy pleaded. “That mansion has aContinue reading “There’s a Light”
Category Archives: short stories
Home
Our room did have a small electric heater, and we used hot stone water bottles in the big bed at night. My sister and I shared this room in our small rowhouse flat. It was an old drafty building, so my parents gave us the top floor room. The rising heat made it the warmestContinue reading “Home”
Reboot and Say Yes to Fun!
“Work, you damn computer!” Katherine pounded on the keys of her laptop in frustration. It was a year Katherine thought she would never see. In one year the pyramid of her life tumbled one block at a time. A twenty-year marriage, a cheating husband, a failed business she loved and now the last straw, aContinue reading “Reboot and Say Yes to Fun!”
Echoes in Time
From photographs and slides to digital, preservation efforts often past memories to be technologically updated, providing opportunities for different views. Although I’ve flipped through photos in scrapbooks and albums numerous times before, but television viewing afforded the possibly for a room full of people to view the same photograph at the same time. And theContinue reading “Echoes in Time”
Irish Eyes
Twas a cool breeze out that night on the streets of Manhattan, but for me, it was as frigid as the snow queen herself. I felt the icy stare of me mistress, my friend, see straight through me as if I were nothing but a ghostly figure, not even there. To her, I may haveContinue reading “Irish Eyes”
Dreaming In a Wartime Christmas
Author’s Note: This is a brief peek of a WWII historical romance novel You’ll Never Know… that will be released in Jan-Feb 2021 about the whirlwind romance and lovesick heartache of a a USO singer and her boyfriend on a ship in the Atlantic during the later part of the war. Thousands of miles apart,Continue reading “Dreaming In a Wartime Christmas”
Chatty, but not Cathy
Everyone is unique. It’s the engine which makes us go through the world. Some people ridicule differences and many people dwell on what they consider to be bad personality or character traits. I believe self-clarity and acceptance is the path to serenity. Here is my response to a writing prompt from my group which asksContinue reading “Chatty, but not Cathy”
I choose
On primary election day many years ago, my husband and I went to our polling location together. He was ahead of me in line and asked for a particular party ballot, as was required of our state in a primary election. When it was my turn, I asked for my party ballot, which happened toContinue reading “I choose”
The Main Connection
My husband and I bought the Main Plantation outside Charleston on a lark. We retired five years agoand after thousands of games of golf and a closet full of paint by numbers canvasses, we needed asecond career. So the Main B and B began. The name shows it’s a bed and breakfast and also namesContinue reading “The Main Connection”
Mary-Go-Round
Mary-Go-Round “In ten miles, turn left at Exit 104,” said the kindly GPS voice. After school, Katie has band practice, then Holly has dance, and Robbie has to get to guitar lessons, Mary thought. Do I have a lasagna in the fridge for dinner? Mary’s daily commute gave her ninety whole minutes to herself eachContinue reading “Mary-Go-Round”
SUZANNE RUDD HAMILTON 