Finishing up his last customer’s lawn before Miss Kittren, David loaded his equipment back into his truck and made his way down the block. In all honesty, Miss Kittren was his easiest client. With her insistence on weekly trimmings, the grass hardly had time to grow much and the majority of the trimmings were so small they didn’t need to be bagged up. He quickly ran the mower over the grass, pulled the few weeds that had...

Pulling into his driveway, Will parked his car and breathed a heavy sigh. The stress and nervousness of the day had all but subsided as he stepped out onto his driveway. Loosening the tie around his neck and removing his suit jacket, he heard a whistle from the neighbor’s property that caught his attention. Turning towards the house next door, a big smile filled his face. “Looking good, Will!” his neighbor Amber shouted w...

Traffic crawled to a standstill as the sun sank lower in the sky. Inside his recently purchased, but slightly used, Honda Civic, Jacob sat mumbling expletives under his breath. The sea of brake lights seemed to stretch on forever in front of him with no end in sight. Letting out a yawn, Jacob toyed with the buttons on the radio and pondered the choices in life he had recently made. Why did I ever take this stupid job in t...

Casey woke to the warm Florida breeze drifting through one of his condo's open windows. Rubbing his weary eyes, he rolled onto his side and reached for his phone on the nightstand. Groaning that the time was only quarter to six in the morning, he rested his head back on the pillow and stared up at the ceiling. His mind drifted about, playing back the events of the past couple of months in his head. Casey's life in that sh...

"Strike two!" shouted the umpire as he watched the pitch fly into the catcher's mitt, just inside of the strike zone. In the dugout, Jason nodded in approval as he glanced down to mark the count in his coach's book. Fresh out of his last semester of college, Jason was back home attempting to start his adult life. Graduating wasn't the only hurdle he had to jump. His mind was spinning, applying for jobs here and jobs there...

Let me share a quick story about a doctor's visit that went a little over the line. When I was about twenty, I needed a painful wart removed from my inner thigh, pretty much right where my left leg meets the first bit of scrotal skin. Not having a family doctor, I went to a nearby medical clinic not knowing in the slightest who I'd end up with. I sincerely hoped I'd be paired with a female nurse or doctor, as having a man...

Samantha, now seventy-eight years old, sat in the office of Mr. Anderson, a family lawyer. Her four adult children—Megan, Kayla, Brian, and Olivia—surrounded her with an air of support, their united presence a source of strength during this trying moment. The weight of time was evident in Samantha's aged hands and weary eyes. Megan, forty-seven, sat on one side with her hand resting gently on Samantha's shoulder. Kayla, f...

Logan reached for Samantha and grabbed a handful of hair pulling her towards him, kicking the front door closed behind him. In the next half-second his hands were all over her. Samantha gasped and went a few inches up in the air, and then they were dancing around, half struggling. She leaned in towards him, her head tilting slightly; she closed her eyes as she felt his lips gently brush against hers. He could smell her pe...