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In The Surf (part 8)
I sped past most of page one's results, skidding on the occasional eye-catching road sign. Most were just billboards promoting "Used CL coupes for sale" or "San Diego Padres, Scoreboard Announcements." I spent a few moments debating the seemingly genuine......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-02 14:30:48 | Rating:

| Views: 102 | Comments: 9 | Tags: searching california

Bussing Tables (part 9)
Elli was first to be spit from the accordion jaws of the school bus with her sisters trailing behind like well co-ordinating accessories. They looked up to her, and not just because she was the tallest of the three. She was the one who......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-06 15:06:09 | Rating:

| Views: 154 | Comments: 7 | Tags: these are the girls

the reasons for aloe
as promised, an addendum detailing implied audacity...put in first person as to avoid a judgemental slant. (why, i don't know) i am studying her skin, pitying the pain she must be in. A general appearance of lavander char with varying degrees of scarlet. in a few days it will......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-11 20:24:23 | Rating:

| Views: 91 | Comments: 4 | Tags: stepford stepmom

Alice At Tea (part 10)
As we entered the house, a mudslide of book bags and jackets, shoes and lunch bags slid off their carriers into one large, lumpy pile. The girls took their seats at the small kitchen table; trading the day's events, while I brought water to a boil at the stove.......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-15 13:22:58 | Rating:

| Views: 94 | Comments: 6 | Tags: twenty minutes or less

Sunshift (part eleven; renamed)
I ambled delicately to the small kitchen table, toting the teas on a warped pine butler's tray; Elli at my heels with a box of ginger snaps. The mornings' canary sun was shifting and got caught in a tarnished orange corner of the western......Read More