Monthly Archives: June 2016

I am going to vote, because it’s my right and privilege. I just don’t know who to vote for, since I do not favor either of the “presumptive” candidates. It was much easier in school, you know, the most popular person got the votes and nothing in my day to day school life changed. IContinue reading “Rock/Hard Place”

whine, moan, complain…… more whining and moaning and complaining….. Just heard that Mr. Patterson and his team of writers are launching a “New” way to sell books…… Packaged shorts…. cost is less than $5. snort

Antoinette “Toni-May” Marie LaVasseur didn’t much like winter. It was, putting it mildly, her idea of the worse time of the year. She wasn’t like her sister, Rachael, who seemed to be able to make the best of everything. She, liked her sister Rachael, which is why, she reasoned with herself, she had gotten outContinue reading “Rachael’s Song chapter 2”

She had decorated her small piece of the world as precisely as she could to a picture she’d seen in a Good House Keeping Magazine a few years ago. It was, to her twenty year old mind, her truest statement of home. She’d used straw mats over the carpet to simulate hard wood flooring, butContinue reading “Rachael’s Song”

The bus stopped two blocks from Rachael’s apartment building. The wind that whipped around her head and punched her in the face reminded her that getting off here had been a stupid idea. There was a perfectly good bus stop in front of her building. That bus stop was covered and heated, a rare commodity,Continue reading “Rachael’s song”