“Little bitty tear let me down, spoiled my act as a clown, I had it made up not to make a frown. Oh, but a little bitty tear let me down.” He mumbled and then started humming the song, lightly in and out of notes as he stared straight ahead looking through the train car [...]
Lucy and Anne wandered up a street of boutiques selling items neither of them could really afford. They each carried a few shopping bags filled with clothes and accessories that they couldn’t pass up. It was a beautiful day and the perfect way to take her mind off her guilt about the wedding. They were [...]
Kevin wandered into the kitchen with the cuffs of his splintered jeans dragging on the ground. His feet padded across the wooden floor and up to the coffee pot. He poured a cup for himself. “We out of sugar?” he asked and rubbed his hand over his damp, dark hair. “Coffee’s ready.” “What? I don’t [...]
“Did you know that when you live in a warm climate, like in Phoenix, you lose track of years? You know, like you don’t have the weather reference like you do in Chicago,” Christina mentioned after the customer left. “I know that I got my dog in high school in the winter because it was [...]
Christina rubbed the red lipstick off her teeth and smiled into the mirror. She glanced over her appearance and smoothed her straight blonde hair. Round brown eyes gazed back. She smiled again into the mirror and then growled. The lipstick had stained her front teeth again. She reached for a brown paper towel and rubbed [...]
