• Chapter 29 "Storytime!" [Part 2]

    Gus heard the loud noise, jolting him awake, and he quickly felt around for his glasses, shoving them haphazardly on his face as he looked around the room in the darkness for anything that might've made...

  • Chapter 3 "Pairings In The Park"

    Pairings in the Park was once again here, and the gang, as usual, was in attendance. The event - one of the smaller of the season - was located in Millsbury Park, and was a simple enough concept; you...

  • Chapter 4 "The Deep End"

    Laura wasn't naive. She wasn't sheltered. She knew that she was 15 now, she was well aware of the 'changes' her body was going through. She'd gone from being a short, awkward gangly little girl to being...

  • Chapter 28 "What Time Is It? [Part 1]"

    "What time is it?" Melanie asked loudly, brightly, as all the kids threw their hands up in the air and shouted back, "Storytme!" After which she applauded them, all laughing together. This had been what...

  • Chapter 3 "Good, Clean Fun"

    Gayle and Steven were at a bar downtown for the night, sipping from little shot glasses. Steven put his glass down on the table upside down and grinned. That was his fourth, he was beating his wife by...

  • Chapter 2 "May I Take Your Bags?"

    Sitting with Gayle on the patio of a nice restaurant that evening, Steven Walton couldn't help but feel like he was somehow doing something wrong. Gayle hadn't spoken to him in an hour, and she was focused...