As You Like It

texted me the address of the cabin, and I went for a drive with a shotgun in the backseat of my Tahoe. Is it the right thing to do? Maybe not. Am I going to scare the living shit out of some kids? Yes I am. “Xavier, what if she shows up with Damon, you know how bad this can look.” I hear a teenage girls’ voice say as two kids walked up to the porch. I guess Xavier cant keep his pants on. I started recording everything, how he pushed her up against the wall and started kissing her. I was going to…

“No reason to stop you, Stealer Girl,” said Asa, using her baseball nickname from primary school. The last fingers of light glowed from the sunset, fading into a deep cobalt blue. Asa stretched luxuriously. “May I interest you in a hot fudge sundae?” “I’d love one, but I believe the drug store is closed.” “I happen to have a set of keys.” She giggled. “In that case, I would love a sundae.” They walked arm and arm down the dock, but when they got to shore, Nell said, “Oh, Asa, we forgot…

Flustered, Percival stood up. “Ah, all right, I’ll walk you over to the woods and you can take care of your business there.” “I have to pee real, read bad.” Rion grabbed Percival’s hand and nearly dragged him toward the woods. While Percival and the little boy raced off to the trees, Gwaine cackled with amusement in the…

She pierced her lips into a straight line and put his paper in the curve pile of papers. "He's actually been improving if you asked me. If you even cared to look at the monitored homework, you would see as well." He bit his lip and placed a hand over her pen. "Feisty I like it." Diamond roughly snatched her hand from his and flashed her 15 carrot ring. He licked his lips and glared at the glistening moon through her window. "Hey babygirl." A voice…

during games of Truth or Dare. The question was always the same. “Come on Delaney, you’ve gotta tell us! Who do you like?” Naturally, answer was always the same too. I’d offer a half-hearted shrug and a glance to the side. “I’m just friends with boys. I don’t really feel like I need to date them.” That was why Mike was so important. Mike was the first boy that I’d ever loved. Mike felt like a bit of an outlier. He was…

to see you,” she says, and invites me into the foyer. “How are you?” “I’m not sure. It’s been a crazy day.” “There’s roast chicken with tarragon in the oven,” she says, “I’d love for you to join me for an early dinner.” “Thanks.” We walk into the kitchen. The smell of food comforts me. She nods for me to sit, and arranges another place setting. “Do you enjoy cooking for yourself?” I ask. “I do, cooking became my new passion, once I gave up sex.” I chuckle. “I understand. It gives you what…

love then lies / Not truly in their hearts but in their eyes” (Rom. 2.3.67-68). While this approach is fairly indirect and does little to avert the tragedy awaiting her in act five, it does much to assure both Romeo and Juliet that their love is not “like the lightning, which doth cease to be / Ere one can say that it lightens” (Rom.…

CO: Okay. So is that something that you are not comfortable with doing with your mom? Minimal encourager, Open-ended question The counselor intended to allow the client to expand on her thoughts. It seemed as if she was reluctant to talk about her mother. The counselor asked an open-ended question with a minimal encourager. However, it could…

my body weaved through people like water over stones, a gift only New Yorkers possessed. I was drawn to her, naturally. The way her hair fell like waves pulling out to sea, the harsh wind whipping it from her face. How…

know all of you better.” “Hopefully she’ll figure out it’s time to leave you,” Randy didn’t look up from his phone. “Did you even tell her shit about our family? Does she even know-” “I know everything,” a small voice from the corner said. Lindsay was looking down at her lap. “John told me everything.” “Well then she’s too far gone, already embraced the crazy,” Randy stands up and makes his way toward the kitchen, “I think it’s time to go.” “Randy, no,” his mother protests, “You only just…