As the last of the distant relatives and not-quite-close-friends mourners drifted out of the house and through the gates, Kaine breathed more easily. She didn’t really feel relief—or comfort. She was…
There’s no deeper pit than the pit of self-doubt. Once you let it suck you in, it buries you, and it takes way more strength, and skill, than you ever believed…
Are we sometimes too trusting, or too negligent, or just plain stupid? I ask myself this question when I hear certain stories. And whatever the answer I am terrified of what…
Someone pointed out to me two days ago that I anticipate the worst happening in most situations. My argument that it wasn’t true died on my tongue as I thought about…
Ronald Silas understood goals from the moment his mother taught him success wasn’t possible without them, and he’d set one for himself ever since. He excelled in his exams because failure…
Clara didn’t think Cupid would shoot his arrow in a nightclub when she chose Club-67 as her destination, but she was in a daring mood and wanted a taste of well-made…
“Don’t ask me to marry you.” Ten seconds before Clara Ani blurted out that startling plea she’d imagined she’d say yes if he did. Samuel Freeman was in theory the man…
A man didn’t want to meet the woman who would become an important part of his life in a state of absolute, and utterly embarrassing, unawareness. But that was how my…
