THE PACT But you said… Thomas saw the start of a comment from Rosa and stopped her dead mid-sentence, as he knew where she was headed. He stood up from the sofa in Rosa’s apartment and emphatically said: “No, no!” Rosa was taken aback and recoiled back away from Thomas…

SURPRISE GAG Booke frantically typed in her message and pressed send. The message she had just completed was a sensual one sent with a smiley face that looked a little naughty. She tried focusing on finishing dinner for her daughter and her boyfriend. Still, her anticipation for what and how…

The school day was nearing its end, and Trevor was having difficulty focusing in Mrs. Ortega’s 7th-period Algebra class. His focus, or lack thereof, could have been for many reasons, like having a low-energy lunch to power him through the rest of the day. …

The other nurses warned her about him, at least the female ones. She had shown up out of nowhere, coming from one of those prompt care facilities working that beat for nearly two years fresh out of nursing school. She had entered that life bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, but over time…

The evening was slowly approaching on another day. This day happened to be Friday, and Myrtle consistently watered her plants on Friday evening in the yard of her suburb home with her husband, William. The two were a long-time elderly married couple with grandchildren who had their own children. …

They say pride goeth before the fall; in this case, it was coming sooner. Mickey had struggled and skimped his way out of personal debt with his business making it a thriving and profitable one in less than ten years. …

Hugo’s day was going rather well. He was ahead of schedule, and the sun was shining, adding to the joyous feeling of the day. Hugo was a bicycle carrier delivering packages from office to office or wherever the bag needed to be dropped off within the city limits. He had…

You would have to be Braxton to understand how important this day was to him. He had just finally felt like he had arrived as it pertains to being someone on his Del Norte High School campus. He was now a junior, but more interestingly, he was famous after having…

Jimmy and his boys entered the bar in a festive mood laughing and cracking jokes with each other. Jimmy had just left his girl’s house with a kiss and put a black leather jacket on his back to join the guys feeling the need for some solid gentlemanly company. As…