Read Part 3 here …Samaritan.   I found myself looking up at the ceiling, with my mouth greedily grasping at the humid, morning air.  “Thank God! It was just a dream…only a dream.”  I muttered into the pillow.  Gathering my wits about me I looked around the room.  It was my bedroom, I was certain.  The […]

“My husband and I had just moved into a new house.  Our old house only had three bedrooms.  My youngest son had his own room, but the girls had been sharing a room.  They were sleeping on bunk beds.   We just wanted more space so everyone could have their own room and not be on […]

Socrates slowly opened his eyes, while lying in the middle of the wreckage.  It was difficult to see anything in the dim light.  But he could hear something moving.  Shhh. Shhh!  Something was with him and moving about the wreckage of the train car.  He strained his eyes, darting them back and forth, always a few seconds […]

Twin silhouettes of geese against a grey sky. Mushrooming umbrellas beneath. Jazz monuments with limp shoulders. Hung heads dressed in black coat and black tie. The bass guitar tripped over the horizon, With the cymbals and drums playing double-time to catch up to the horns. Early morning ushered in the daylight. The amplitude of the […]

There was a knock at the door.   Janelle had arrived for their dinner date.  “Why, hello!”  Janelle said with a bit of shock.  “You must be Charles’ son or something?” “Janelle, stop playing around.” “Charles?” “Yes!  Me!  Charles.” He replied with annoyance.  “Come on in and stop playing around out there.” “But Charles…You look almost […]