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Mary

Our Reader Score [Total: 12   Average: 2.6/5]Jim B.  ©opy write November 2009 Chapter I: Meeting Doris and Rose “Hello, Roy’s Barber Shop, Roy here,” the voice answered. “Hi, Mrs. Taylor, what can I do for you? “Sorry to hear that – tell him to get well.” “Well,...
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Shreaded Wheat (Part 2)

Our Reader Score [Total: 6   Average: 2.8/5]Ms. Kent drove Nina and Cheryl to Nina’s house. Nina’s Mother was in shock. Ms. Kent was afraid that Nina’s Mother would be angry with her, but instead she was grateful how supportive she had been during this difficult episode. After Ms Kent had...
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Shreaded Wheat (Part 1)

Our Reader Score [Total: 7   Average: 2.7/5]Surreptitiously Nina passed the note across the aisle to Cheryl. Ms Kent, the deputy principal, was still writing on the blackboard, patiently trying to explain early Australian history to the class of ten year olds who, lured by sound of cicadas...
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Defrosting the Ice Queen

Our Reader Score [Total: 7   Average: 3.1/5]It was nearly midnight and I was clicking the remote, trying to find a movie on TV I hadn’t seen before.  It seemed like all of the cable channels had joined in a conspiracy to keep showing the same old films.  After ten...
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A Birthday Surprise

Our Reader Score [Total: 9   Average: 2.1/5]The young woman slowed her battered Honda so she could look into the shop’s windows as she drove past.  When she reached the corner she pulled into a parking lot, turned around, and returned from the other direction.  After a second...
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I Can Take It Shorter

Our Reader Score [Total: 19   Average: 2.8/5]It was an ordinary Saturday afternoon.  Donna and I had spent most of the morning and early afternoon doing chores around the house.  It was now 3:30 and I was getting cleaned up, preparing to go to the mall.  I needed to pick up a few...
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Georges

Our Reader Score [Total: 6   Average: 3.2/5]I was in a part of town that I hadn’t been to for sometime, must have been 10 plus years.  Where there used to be pubs and chip shops you now found bistros and coffee shops.  New offices had been built...
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For Samantha, A Beginning

Our Reader Score [Total: 14   Average: 2.8/5]I’m afraid, very much afraid. Standing on the sidewalk in front of a neighborhood barbershop, I’m afraid to enter, yet unable to walk away. Inside, three barbers stand behind their chairs, trimming their customers’ hair. They don’t notice me, at least,...
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The Hair-Eater

Our Reader Score [Total: 12   Average: 3.8/5]I don’t remember my parents at all. They were killed in a car accident when I was very young. My grandmother raised me. Though most people assumed she was my mother anyway, since she was always so young-looking. My earliest memory...
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Is That Short Enough

Our Reader Score [Total: 19   Average: 2.8/5]COULD YOU GET IT A LOT SHORTER PLEASE!!! There he had said it john hardly believed he was uttering those words Since he was a boy  he had hated those dreaded  short haircuts from MAXIES MAXI  was a no nonsense  barber...
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