Ashokan Falls – 14

All around, images slid past. Her last thought was of drowning in a tube of liquid fire. The next thought came as a bit of surprise, because Chloe was certain it’d never happen again: she was still breathing. And something was clenching her waist tight enough to make her squirm with discomfort. Survival instinct kicked Read More …

The Time I Almost Became a Russell Crowe Fan

Or: A Remember When in which I ramble incoherently. I like to think I would have become one at the time. I was a young mother with a baby still growing her way out of pre-maturity, so going to the movies became a semi-forgotten past-time that was only given precedence if there was a MUST-GO-SEE movie Read More …

Ashokan Falls – 12

They’d driven to the garage, but Colin and Johnny had already closed shop. Chloe begged off going to the Tavern once again.  As much as Tina warned that she shouldn’t put off the inevitable, that it wouldn’t stop the Boyz from finding a way to pour all their interest and good-will on her, Chloe couldn’t Read More …