Nancy
Joined May 2009 and calls Twitter home.
28 stories, 65 challenges, 247 comments, and 14 friends
This is the website I’ve been waiting for my whole life.
Stories
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Survivor
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The Beginning
Why he started was a mystery. He was curious. He didn’t have a grand plan; no big intention. He was just curious. And bored. A deadly combination. Walking for weeks, he camped in the desert each night. Not far enough off the road that he couldn&#...
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Confession
“You need to have at least five —” “FIVE? She needs more than that,” the boy took a drag on his cigarette before flicking it onto the wet asphalt. The little girl looked at him, eyes wide, afraid but drawn to the big boy w...
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I Know It's Her Birthday
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His Life? A song by Alannis Morrisette
with her, side by side for eternity: his dream swelling in the way oh the wrenching irony the clown’s peanut allergy
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Roadside Attraction
Parked right by the road clown in peanut butter truck munching granola radio leaks Sinatra into painted sunset air
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Cristobol's Cathartic Cookie-related Crisis (Part II)
He usually had no problem running onto the subway or dashing between cars to get away, but today there were these crowds. Masses of peoples lining the streets. The crying little American was smarter than she looked, had shouted for the police… in...
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Cristobol's Cathartic Cookie-related Crisis
“Andiamo! Andiamo!!” Cristobol shouted into the crowd as he attempted to run through them while at the same time ripping off his chef’s coat. He’d lost the hat before knocking over the little American girl. He had to have the co...
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Man In The Kitchen (Part V)
He woke up to sunlight and the smell of coffee, a smell he loved, wafting up the stairs. Realizing his wife was home he ran toward the stairs – he mustn’t have heard her arrive home after an all night flight. She’d been gone for so long. Too long...
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Man In The Kitchen (Part IV)
The young man studied the woman he knew would someday be his wife. They hadn’t been dating terribly long, but something had told him from the first time he saw her at the library that she was the one. And he’d never believed in that crap. After the...
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Man In The Kitchen (Part III)
Before pulling away, she sat in her car and looked across the street to the private dock. She saw him: shirt off, glistening with the sweat of loved hard work, jeans wet at the bottom where his feet hung into the water. He was waxing his sailboat. Agai...
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Man In The Kitchen (Part II)
The morning stretched on, the coffee maker shutting off, coffee darkening… thickening. He finished his puzzle; assumed she ran to drop off dry cleaning or do something else before he woke up. He showered with the door open, inviting her back into the...
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Man In The Kitchen (Part I)
Jumping out of bed, running down the stairs, he followed the scent emanating from the coffee maker. He loved the smell, hated the taste, but he knew it meant she was finally home from her trip. Running to the kitchen, excited at the prospect of seeing ...
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Naughty Rhyming Haiku
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Wake Up Call
Stretching, Em accidentally kicked the cat, albeit lightly. He reacted by swiping her foot helping her finish waking up from a deep 2 a.m. slumber. The phone was ringing: its caller i.d. panel casting a green glow on the wall above where it rested on h...
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Favorite Things In Haiku (Fav Things Challenge)
My dog climbs in to bed and noses her way down beneath covers… sleep. Visiting my mom Early morning rituals coffee, sudoku Nestled ‘tween mountains place of mem’ries and good friends Bennington, Vermont Kris writing his songs short ji...
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They've Only Just Begun (6 Word Challenge)
She kissed a man over coffee. (uh oh… it’s not meeting the minimum!)
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Document Everything
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Sometimes You Don't Need Protection (3)
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Sometimes You Don't Need Protection (2)
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Sometimes You Don't Need Protection
Meanwhile, in the girls’ locker room… Jennifer stood with her friends, commanding attention with the news she just shared. The news that could hush even the largest gaggle of teenage girls, “I think I’m going to do it with him,&...
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Let the Game Begin
Everything with Julia felt like a test. A test of wills, a test of smarts, a test to see if you were somehow “enough”. The pressure on Nicole’s thigh wasn’t much, she could have gotten up and walked away, but there was something...
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Bennington Sky
The sky never got black in Bennington; after sunset it darkened from cyan… cerulean… a gorgeous indigo reminiscent of her mother’s favorite scarf. As the night progressed it went further through the spectrum… saphire… Prus...
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Strangers On A Train
“—No, what she needs to do is close her freaking legs,” “C’mon, she’s a kid, she doesn’t know any better,” The kid at the center of their discussion wasn’t really a kid. She was clearly in her twent...
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Anticipation
It’s amazing the way scent can invoke emotion. As Nicole pulled the sweatshirt out of her locker she was immediately awash in its odor… a pleasant mix of lavender, patchouli and a little stale smoke. Quickly she felt the familiar tight ting...
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The Girls with their Two Jump Ropes
Marla wasn’t sure if she heard correctly: the chant as the girls jumped double-dutch. If she had, though, she knew Sister Karen would be furious should the strains of the jumping chant reach her third floor classroom. A fan of double dutch, Marla...
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Decision
The light came through the window, landing on the small card table that had sat in his kitchen for years. The sun felt good, he closed his eyes, leaning forward to feel its warm kiss. His glass of water refracted the light onto the table top. Dust danc...
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School Bus
