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The TV shut off loudly as the elder sibling finished watching another horror movie. Well, to be perfectly honest, it was more of a thriller. Horror movies did not have happy endings. A brief rummage in the fridge for a midnight snack produced a half-eaten sandwich and the remaining three inches of a once-full, two-liter bottle of Pepsi. The ( Read more... )

Ahh, another day. At two in the morning, the small house snuggled in the midst of a peaceful community rumbles with the snores of the male parental figure mixed with the whistling gurgles of the female parental figure. The smallest child in the house flounders fitfully beneath her blankets, the weather a bit too warm for such heavy fabric. Merely a ( Read more... )