I have never been the kind of guy to want to talk about my problems. It was to my detriment, I guessed, seeing how I had shuffled off this mortal coil the first time around but since showing up on the island and seeing Shari again, I thought I was fixed. My arm seemed to be better and everything seemed to be going for me -- on the surface, anyway ( Read more... )

I waited until after the speeches were over and we were both back at home to say anything. I knew Shari had been on the island for a long time and I didn't really expect her to have put her life on hold for three years not knowing when or even if I'd show up, but that still didn't really prepare me for the shock of hearing she'd been married. How ( Read more... )

I've always tried to play it cool when it came to dating and relationships and as a result, I didn't really date around. I always had dates for the requisite high school social scenes: sweet sixteens, proms, homecomings. I didn't really date though, because I always had a hard time letting people close. There's a lot of protection in being ( Read more... )

I have never really been through a hurricane. I'd seen them on television plenty of times when I was still alive and I never really understood exactly how destructive they were, especially in comparison to mudslides and earthquakes, which were an almost yearly occurrence where I lived. Earthquakes had to be worse than hurricanes. And yet, I ( Read more... )

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