• Chapter 7 "Hello, Stranger"

    It had been a nice day, and now it was time for a nice evening. Since getting back to the home, Carol, Boris, Burt, Larry and Polly had played a few hands of poker and a few other card games, watched...

  • Chapter 6 "Funny Seeing You Here"

    "Do you remember what it's like being in school?" Burt asked Polly as they were getting on the bus for their trip. Polly shrugged as Carol and Boris followed them on. "I have memories of parts of school,...

  • Chapter 5 "Down The Hatch"

    Carol was sitting by herself in the lunch room, slowly sipping her apple juice, her eyes staring directly down at the table and nowhere else. If anyone were to look at her for even more than half a second,...

  • Chapter 4 "Knot On Your Life"

    "I remember being in the girlscouts," Whittle said as she walked Chrissy down the hall. "Did you have to do this sort of thing?" Chrissy asked, and Whittle smiled, nodding. "Oh yeah, helping the elderly...

  • Chapter 3 "I've Won War Medals"

    "This is stupid," Boris said as he tried to search through a small, plastic blue box containing dozens upon dozens of beads of different sizes, shapes and colors, "Where's all the goddamned brown?" "I...

  • Chapter 20 "Payday"

    Jason really wanted to get out of this apartment. He had had his eye on a small place downtown that would be much better suited to his life, and he was thinking of asking Amie to move in with him. Jason...