When it first started to happen I couldn’t explain it. I’d gone to a doctor immediately. It wasn’t normal for a nineteen-year-old girl to suddenly start leaking milk from her breasts. The doctor said it wasn’t as rare as I thought. He’d put it down to a phantom pregnancy, which…

You know what it’s like in the new year; you’ll do anything to start it off right. I’d decided over Christmas that I was going to turn a corner this January by hitting the gym more often and getting in shape. I’d been single for far too long. I worked…

Saturday night television was the worst. At least Jan wasn’t home to bore us with her reality programs. …

The two of them were at each other’s throats in the room above me. Cory would often bring his girlfriend back to my house after he’d been to work. He was a strict Catholic and from some of the words I overheard it was clear that the arguments were about…

“How far along are you now, Kayla?” Dr. Shepherd said, sat across from me at dinner. We often got together with the neighbors and even though Dr. Shepherd was my father’s friend, he was my friend too now. “Oh, gosh,” I looked down at my stomach and the stretched t-shirt…

It was rare I’d ever get a birthday with my friends. Usually my wife would do something at home, or sometimes we’d go out for a meal — it was all very tame stuff. But this year was different. For my fortieth birthday she’d given me permission to go out…

“Not bad,” I said, nodding slowly as I looked upon my lodger Peter in his religious regalia. He wore a long black robe with his white collar at the top and a set of rosary beads around his neck. “How does it feel?” “Kind of uncomfortable,” he fidgeted, staring into…

My ex-babysitter Angie and I had gone to the traveling fairground as kind of a joke, really. Neither of us had been in so long and she’d said it might be fun to return to those moments from before, when she used to sit for me. We’d had a blast…

It was certainly a day for adventure. The sky shone bright with a hue that matched the checkered squares of Goldie’s blue and white dress. Her blonde hair was tied in pig-tails behind her and her black, polished shoes looked out-of-place against the dirt-road that split through the forest. Goldie…