• Chapter 41 "Wet Blanket"

    Sharla Karbrook had once volunteered at a retirement home. In all honesty, it hadn't exactly been of her own free will, and in fact was the direct result of having been involved in a teenage prank that...

  • Chapter 40 "Run For Your Life"

    Natasha had never been running in her entire life. Standing in the aisle containing workout clothes, she couldn't believe she was even going to give it an attempt, but Sharla wanted to start a routine...

  • Chapter 39 "So What Now"

    The reviews, god the reviews. Not a single negative one among them. Even the literary snobs who usually would hate this sort of gimmick couldn't bring themselves to talk dirty on Nat's book. The reviews...

  • Chapter 38 "The Spine"

    Misty LeClaire had been making up stories since she was a little girl. Anytime she had a writing assignment for school, she always overexcelled. This gradually led to her writing for fun outside of that,...

  • Chapter 37 "Homewrecker"

    "Mom, please, open the door!" Corrine shouted. She was standing on the front porch, banging on the door, sobbing. A few hours earlier, her ex-girlfriends mother had called her parents, and told them...

  • Chapter 36 "Rated TV-PG"

    "Maybe this was a mistake," Nat said, sitting on the trunk of her car, Stephen sitting next to her. "The show today or?" "Everything. Us. My career. All of it," she replied, "maybe it was all a mistake....