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”
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Cheating Time
I keep having this reoccurring dream that I’m running down an empty street. It’s darker than a midnight where the dim shadow of a sliver blue moon and the intermittent blink of a couple faulty streetlights cast cruel lonely silhouettes. All I can hear is the haunting echo of my kitten-heeled slingbacks against the pavementContinue reading “Cheating Time”
A Not OK Corral
On my family’s continuing journey to map the United States with our brown Oldsmobile station wagon, I learned many things. It was more than just the names and places, but outside of the confines of our hometown, I realized lessons of life, people and my parents that echo through my daily life even today. InContinue reading “A Not OK Corral”
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?”
The First Encounter
Author’s Note: This is an exerpt from An Emerald Homecoming, an upcoming novel from A Timeless American Historical Romance Series. Each day Jackie biked to the beach alone. She sat on the sand, gazing into the infinite golden horizon, searching for the meaning of what happened with her parents’ death by looking into the cloudsContinue reading “The First Encounter”
I Hate Green Beans!
As a kid, I had a very strict rule. I didn’t eat anything green. I was a finicky eater at best, but I just hated the awful taste in my mouth. And to make matters worse, my mother wasn’t a cook. She put everything on the table as best as she could, unfortunately, that meantContinue reading “I Hate Green Beans!”
Grateful For…
With the leftovers finally gone, we can reflect on the Thanksgiving holiday and the tradition of giving thanks. As we all learned in grade school, the first Thanksgiving feast was celebrated by the Pilgrims with the Native American Wampanoag people after their initial harvest in the New World in November 1621. The feast lasted three days andContinue reading “Grateful For…”
Mira filled another empty cardboard box, labeled it clothes and heaped it on the lowest pile among a forest of stacks. For a week, she had been cleaning out the home of a lonely woman who passed away without any family or friends. Boxing up the kitchenware, clothing and personal belongings of this mystery woman,Continue reading
Day at the Beach
The beach is my favorite place to relax, breathe the fresh sea air in the warming comfort of the sun’s rays and hear a choir of sea birds underscored by the hum of boat engines. I sit with my toes blanketed in cozy sand, clad in my protective straw hat and sunscreen and read aContinue reading “Day at the Beach”
Press for Human
I love online shopping. A world of goods are right at my fingertips and delivered to my door. But there’s another sharper side to that coin I discovered when I ordered a small futon online. It arrived on schedule and I eagerly opened it up, read the directions and looked for the pieces to assemble.Continue reading “Press for Human”
SUZANNE RUDD HAMILTON 