Ghosts showed up around every corner. They weren’t really dead people, at least not yet. It was just that everything in the mall brought up thoughts of Candy and Dad and those troublesome half-sisters. Shauna Rae couldn’t find a trace of that feeling that she had come to reclaim, the pleasure of lazy weekends browsing [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Segment 13.5
Posted in 13 Episode Thirteen, tagged Blog Fiction, Daniels, Issacson on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Segment 13.4
Posted in 13 Episode Thirteen, tagged Blog Fiction, Daniels, Morales, Sackett, Tranh/Saris on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From behind, the sameness of the condos only intensified. Each one hid behind a smooth façade of brown wooden fencing flanked by uniform fleets of gray trash barrels and bright blue recycling bins. Only the perfectly symmetrical white numbers painted beside each gate distinguished one unit from another.
Sam replayed the number of the Templeton [...]
Segment 13.3
Posted in 13 Episode Thirteen, tagged Blog Fiction, Carson/Fenton, Westcott/Magotti on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The address was right but it struck Wyatt as peculiar. Why would a grocery store request a food delivery to the premises? Sure, the bodega was small but even places such as these had their own delivery systems.
“Hello?” Wyatt called as he opened the door. “Someone call for a delivery?”
The clerk at the counter snorted, [...]
Segment 13.2
Posted in 13 Episode Thirteen, tagged Blog Fiction, Grenholm, Templeton on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Numbers lined up but wouldn’t balance. It was not that something was wrong with the accounting. The numbers just refused to resolve themselves into something intelligible.
“Did I do good boss?” the clerk asked.
“I can’t tell,” Candy muttered. The clerk’s eyes widened and her breath stilled. “I’m sorry,” Candy said. “It looks like you had [...]