Penny sets the plate down and steps back to offer fresh ground pepper. She freezes with the pepper mill suspended. The young woman is staring at the tangle of noodles in horror. Penny scans the dish with the artfully smeared pesto and negative space. There is nothing amiss but something Read more
Oh words, you’ve done it again, letting me go blithely on my way believing I knew what was what. Silly me. The beauty of words is that they have specific meanings. Yes sometimes different words can mean the same thing but they each have their own unique identity. Planning and Read more
Her mom used to say look to the water. Whenever something went wrong in a day, she’d say “Look to the water, it’ll soothe you.” They were island people so finding water had been easy. Bee was in the big city now. Soothing had been hard to come by until Read more
Celine didn’t chat up customers for the tips but she did manage to save a few dollars for herself. She liked the compliments on her English and the taste of camaraderie while she tempted them with the sweets menu. Gilles gave hard stares if it sounded like flirting. She was Read more
It’s the only peace she gets now. A few minutes at the new cafe when she walks down the hill for Momma’s daily paper. Momma still refuses to let them deliver it to the house even though the Baylor boy has long since given up the route. Even his son Read more
Marie-Helene was trying to understand the words coming out of the blonde woman’s mouth. The perfect white teeth distracted her. Marie-Helene didn’t understand why the woman was thanking her so profusely – it was just a bed. An old lumpy bed that was wider than a single but not spacious enough Read more
They say you can never go home. Penny had a lot of opinions but didn’t have one about that dictum. Mainly because she didn’t really remember any one place as being home. They changed too often and they never felt homey – getting used to a place only meant she’d Read more
If Kara had a quarter for every time a guy spoke to her cleavage – she’d have roughly $3, 276. This isn’t as much as she’d have expected but its an honest appraisal based on a weekly average starting from the age of fourteen when the wonder of hormones changed Read more