Hi friends! Did you know that LJ Idol is holding a Survivor style competition over on Dreamwidth? I've been playing for a few weeks now. This week, I wrote about the infamous female serial killer, Belle Gunness, who has always fascinated me ( Read more... )

Jeremy was tired of being second best. He’d spent so much of the last twenty five years in the shadow of his older sister that it seemed embedded in his persona. Luckily, he thought he’d finally found a way to “best” her. Recently, he started playing the game “Words with Friends.” It worked much like an online interactive scrabble board, which he ( Read more... )

My eldest child turned 14 yesterday. She's my only daughter, and she's taught me so much about parenting and about love. We don't always see eye to eye though, and I didn't imagine our relationship would look the way it does when she was first born. I guess I assumed that Olivia and I would have the same kind of relationship as my mother and I ( Read more... )

We're in quarantine at my house- hiding, like most everyone, from the Coronavirus. While most of my family back in NY are working in hospitals and trying to help save lives (really important stuff), I'm trying to keep my sanity trapped in this house with my four children, a puppy, a husband who's still trying to do his job in our little front ( Read more... )

Esther had waited all day to share the good news with her family. She was on the Principal's List again- more consecutive spots on the Principal's List than anyone in school history. She scooped a pile of lumpy mashed potatoes onto her plate and then tried to find a moment to spring the good news. It was no use. The family was having intense ( Read more... )

Oh I remember my first day on the job, all bright-eyes and sparkle winged, like most 150 year-old fairies who've made it to the big show. I knew I wanted to be a tooth fairy since as long as I could remember. I loved the uniform. I loved the way the tooth fairies brought joy into the lives of humans by leaving them little coins. I especially ( Read more... )

Rosie leaned forward on the fence slat until her feet could swing off of the ground. She let her body lay there, suspended, until the wooden plank made sharp marks against her skin. Had things been different, she would have rolled herself forward into a perfect somersault, but no one was watching. Everyone was in the house, crying. They'd been ( Read more... )

Today, the pain is back. It's the bad one- the one that feels like little minions have entered my body and begun trying to rip apart my intestines and other various organs in the lower part of my torso. I have to keep remind myself that this pain used to be so much more frequent, that I've gone almost three months without it. At this point ( Read more... )

Myra couldn't explain why she was drawn to the sea. She couldn't swim. She was terrified of wading past her waist in the water, but she would sneak off to the beach whenever she had the chance. Myra had a collection of seaglass, which sounded exotic and natural, but actually were old beer bottles and discarded glassware that found there way into ( Read more... )

Everyone was there for Aunt Josephine's funeral- sister, brother, all the nieces and nephews. No one was going to miss a chance to say goodbye to their lovely and eccentric aunt, and no one was going to miss the opportunity to snoop around her home after the burial. They'd all heard Josephine's stories- the hidden money, the jewels, the fortune ( Read more... )