Story Framgments

Dinner For Bucks

She sat back, and stared at him. The dimly lit restaurant cast shadows on his features. The result was very attractive. His moist eyes glistened behind the shadows created by his high cheek bones. He really was beautiful, but she just couldn’t abide his comment, regardless of her situation.

Forever Moments

There was this day when I was in first grade. A girl in my class, I think her name was Allison, her older sister came to our classroom to drop something off. She was a sixth-grader. I can’t remember what she looked like but I vividly remember thinking I will never be a sixth-grader. Some primitive…

Everybody Poops

“That’s a reasonable point, but here is my question — do they poop?”

“Why does it matter if they poop? Seriously, why does it matter?”

“Because, you’re asking me to enter into this world where living people are bitten by dead people and are then…

Blame The French

Kissing is easy enough. I’ve kissed lots of people. Mostly relatives, but still, I’ve done it a thousand times. You’re born knowing how to do it. Babies make pucker faces and raspberries all the time. It’s the french part, I just don’t get the french part that part. What does your tongue have to do…

Cosmic Connection

“You see, souls are universal.”

I considered what he was saying to me. Or, thinking to me, I guess. This was all so dizzying.

“I’ve been connected to you for years. Since as long as I could remember I’ve seen you.” he said.

For The Win

“It’s worth considering,” Danner said as he slid the money into his pocket, “that winning is only important to the loser. It’s the absence of a win that allows you to truly see it’s value. What does a win mean to a winner? To a winner it’s just the maintenance of the status quo, another hashmark in the…

Bankrupt On Selling

“I sell houses. That’s what I do,” he said. “I couldn’t sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman in white gloves, and I couldn’t…

Agressive Kindness

Ana loved to smile. In fact, love was an inadequate description for her feelings on the matter. She often wondered if her…