Elize McCoy sat at the breakfast table playing with
her sausage and eggs and trying to listen to her
father who was going on about marriage. “But I have a
whole year, Daddy. I’m only fifteen you know?”He smiled and lit his first cigar of the day. “True,
true, but remember you are promised, promised since
you were two.”…
I froze in my tracks as my sister’s face burned red, mortified to learn our mother had caught us having sex. Mom looked up at me with a look that was beyond comprehension: not angry, not happy… amused perhaps. She walked away from Kristen and said, as she passed by me, her tone suddenly stern, […]
Mariah Wallace got out of her car slowly, hoping that she could get from the carport into the house without tossing the remnants of her breakfast. “I shouldn’t have had that second bagel with cream cheese,” Mariah groaned as her stomach continued to churn. After fumbling with her keys for a moment, she finally succeeded […]
“I’m over eighteen, Papa, old enough now to know what I want!” Kitty Harmon insisted. “Old enough for you to treat me like a woman instead of just a little girl!” “Baby,” Luke Harmon said, squirming from the pressure being put on him, “you know I’ve always tried to give you anything you asked for. […]