Cold-Hearted: Part 4
**Part 4** I'd never even been the least bit unfaithful. I didn't look at other guys as they passed, I didn't window shop, I didn't think about other guys, and I didn't even dream about other guys. I was happy when I had him, and...
Cold-Hearted: Part 2
**Part 2** Closing the fridge, I turned and looked out the window, getting lost in the slate gray evening sky and the way the snow flakes went sailing through the air in an almost perfect synchronicity, clogging up the streets and making it...
Cold-Hearted: Part 3
**Part 3** For a few moments after I woke up the next morning, I was dazed and confused because I couldn't see Brian in the dark room. The sky was still the same abiding gray, but it was a little brighter and it at least looked like the...
Broken Words: Chapter 16
**Chapter 16** "Hey, start packing up. We're landing soon." "Already?" Jayden asked with a yawn, shaking his head vigorously to try and recollect his wits, "It hasn't been two hours, has it?" "They just told us over the intercom that we'd be...
Broken Words: Chapter 15
**Chapter 15** The day penetrated the dingy coffee shop in ways that seemed to defy everything he knew about science. Everything was cast in a golden glow, even though only two small windows were set into the wall, many feet away from the tall...
Broken Words: Chapter 14
**Chapter 14** "Are we just going to sit here and ignore the reason you called me in the first place?" Jayden asked, staring ahead at the dashboard, the noon light reflecting off of it and burning his retinas. At least it was easier than...
Broken Words: Chapter 11
**Chapter 11** Not much had changed in his life in reality, but he still felt like he had nothing real left in it. It all caused an intense feeling of deja vu, like he'd felt these feelings before, like he'd already thought these...
Broken Words: Chapter 10
**Chapter 10** "What's wrong with me?" Jayden asked his phone as it stopped ringing. It seemed like something you'd say in the middle of a conversation, perhaps when someone knew what you were talking about, but Jayden was crazy enough where he...
Broken Words: Chapter 9
**Chapter 9** "Hey, Jayden, it's been one month since my last confession and I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for the way I've been acting. I know it's the way I've always acted, I just never knew that it hurt you so much. I couldn't...
Broken Words: Chapter 6
**Chapter 6** Not much had changed about his life, in reality, but he still felt like he had nothing real left in it. Part of him had a hard time understanding how everyone else was going on with their lives like nothing had happened, like the...
Broken Words: Chapter 2
**Chapter 2** Snapping his eyes open, Jayden felt like he was being tugged out of a pleasant dream and thrown into fiery hell. Blinking blearily, the light took shape and he saw it was only the morning flooding into his room. He didn't...
The Parents
Carlen jumped out and started wrestling kit's suitcase from the trunk while kit got out. carlen led kit up the steps and into the house.