Mallory looked down at her phone rereading the text for the fourth time. “It’s better for me to know what you like.” She was sure it was meant innocuously, but for some reason she felt as thought Andy was asking for something more than her coffee order. Perhaps it was wishful thinking as visions of…
Month: October 2021
Recharge
She was feeling drained, done, depleted. Dead. Work was on overload, projects coming in right and left, deadlines somehow fast forwarding in front of her, and the company she worked for was, like everyone else, short staffed and on demand. Personally things were about the same. The shorting electric needed to be addressed, her car…
Charming as a Snake (previously called “The Secret of Anna Maria’s Snake)
Propped up on her elbow, squeezing the neck of her stuffed animal between her forearm and bicep, Anna Maria tried to determine if the noise she heard was from her husband’s sleeping or if it was from an intruder. She pushed off the bed, onto her back. Sniper, the stuffed python, hissed a sigh of…