It is similar to the way you do a job you don't care about but have had for years. You smile, though not to yourself, and perform the necessary functions. It isn't a hard job you dread and it doesn't make your heart swell in anticipation of the Monday to come. Maybe the company is going down, maybe your coworkers don't speak to you. You do your job ( Read more... )

I looked around that room one last time, breathing in the last breath this place would probably see, before leaving. Everything in this town goes to shit eventually. All the lights off, I left the house and closed the door behind me. I shivered a little when my skin met the outside air, and it could have been either the cold or the night's events ( Read more... )

Charlie and I have been married since 1967. He's a good enough man, takes good care of the kids and he keeps the roof over our heads. Granted, I didn't smoke when I married him. Marriage is stress though, you know? You got the family and the kids and the holidays. It's stress. He's a good man though, and he tries. He's never hit me. He shoved me ( Read more... )

I met her during my freshman year of college. I studied engineering but never really went far with it, dropped out after three years. I met her and- - she hit me like a brick. And the most notable thing about my…I don’t want to say “relationship”, but since we related, I guess that’s it. The most notable thing about my relationship to her, my ( Read more... )

Diane and I have been together for years now. Never married, because at this point, there just seems no reason. Seven years, has it been? Eight? Could it have been ten already? Tick, tick, tick ( Read more... )

I've been working the exact same go-nowhere job for the last six years. I got it just as we started the divorce proceedings. I do your every day secretarials for a know-nothing business man out of Cincinatti. He hits on me every now and again, which I suspect is however often he and his 'just darling' wife get in a fight. Somteimes he comes to work ( Read more... )