Stories tagged “Shared Interests”
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Snacks, Movies, and Mind-Reading
Chips and soda in hand, I left the mini-mart and headed home. “You seriously don’t plan on eating chips with that movie, do you?” I stopped in my tracks and looked around, wondering at the source of the quip. It was female, that’...
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A Kurosawa kind of night
I didn’t remember her. She was about my age, maybe a little younger. I thought I had a pretty good memory for the girls from school, especially the ones who walked down the halls and passed me like I was invisible. I glanced down at the cigarette...
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A Girl With (Temporarily) No Name
“Nice to meet’cha. For a second, I felt like I’d been through the desert.” As the words left my mouth, my foot slide right in after them. “So I’m a horse, now?” Her eyes widened, and she took a drag off her smo...
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In Yoda We Trust
“That’s right. Named for the Archangel himself.” Now it was my turn for my eyes to widen. From movies to Christianity, it seems. “That’s quite the burden your parents gave you,” she continued, stuffing her hands in t...