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 [...]
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Segment 13.5
Posted in 13 Episode Thirteen, tagged Blog Fiction, Daniels, Issacson on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Segment 12.4
Posted in 12 Episode Twelve, tagged Blog Fiction, Issacson on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A rush of air and a jolt announced the stop at the mall. Passengers staggered to their feet, some soon enough to sway in the last motion of the bus before it came to rest. With elbows flying, the disembarking shoppers jostled before the door. Shauna Rae slid out between her competitors and dropped to [...]
Segment 11.8
Posted in 11 Episode Eleven, tagged Blog Fiction, Issacson on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The flash and thump of the heart monitor put Caleb’s mortality and fragility on the forefront every few seconds. The weight of this knowledge had become almost too much for Rebecca Issacson to bear. She longed to get away from that sound and yet found herself mesmerized. Her feet tapped with the rhythm.
Beside her, Imelda [...]
Segment 11.1
Posted in 11 Episode Eleven, tagged Blog Fiction, Issacson on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No numbers appeared on the machine, even though it had been fed multiple quarters. Shauna Rae loosed a whining gasp and stamped her foot. The thoughtless machine deprived her of the only thing that would make her feel better, a package of her favorite chocolate cookies. She turned to appeal to the clerk at the [...]
Segment 10.1
Posted in 10 Episode Ten, tagged Blog Fiction, Grenholm, Issacson on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another pop quiz in English Lit. At least the shuffling and muttering that served as a transition from quiz to class gave Immy enough cover to continue unloading her discontent on the only person who ever listened to her, her best friend Pearl. “Candy. What kind of name is that for a grown woman. I’m [...]
Segment 9.8
Posted in 9 Episode Nine, tagged Blog Fiction, Daniels, Issacson, Tranh/Saris on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A shorter person had driven the little coupe before. Caleb pushed the seat back, wondering first how he should confront Imelda and then whether he should at all. She hadn’t asked to take the car nor had she confessed to using it. He wasn’t sure when she’d had that opportunity but somehow she’d found it. [...]
Segment 8.9
Posted in 8 Episode Eight, tagged Blog Fiction, Issacson on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sizzling bacon, the sound and the smell of it, overpowered the second-floor bathroom where three girls elbowed each other in their attempts to ready themselves for school.
“Ugh! That makes me sick,” declared the oldest, rubbing a generous wad of apricot scrub about her face. “I told Dad to stop making dead pigs for breakfast.”
The middle [...]
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