Archive | 09.02.2010
- The Birthday Present
At 42 Leann looked much younger than her years. When she was 25 most people who didn't know her took her to be 15 so not much had changed over the years except she didn't get carded any more at bars and liquor stores. Leann had married her childhood sweetheart, Gary, when she was but 19 years old. Most people didn't give them much of a chance but now, 23 years later, they were as devoted and in love with one another as they had been on the day they were married and probably more so. They'd had two ... more
- The Birthmark Ch. 05
Mary cried and cried until she just couldn't cry any more. Her face was red and marked with the water from those tears. She tried to tell her husband that she hadn't done anything wrong but as she sat at the kitchen table drinking her hot tea, she looked back at what had happened and she realized how bad it looked.
Even if it were true that she hadn't had sex with Jack, or anyone else for that matter it sure didn't look that way. The fact that she had lied to Bud telling him she was having brunch ... more