Short Stories & Nonsense Made Real
Mildred Alicia Vargas
United States
United States
Short Stories & Nonsense Made Real
The sun had set on this hot summer evening in the Bronx. The air ran thick with smoke from a hookah, car exhaust and the faint scent of grass from the local community park. The school year was almost over and Oliver James Perez was near the end of his sophomore year of high school....
A demon really, hindering on the creativity that could be genial or mediocre. What is wrong with me? I've felt so wrong about everything. Lately all I do is wrong and yet I can't write about it. Not a word. They don't come fast enough or don't stick around for long.
"Brujeria." said Antonio. He took a bitter bite of his apple as his ball missed the pocket. "My turn," Carlos shot four pockets with one slick tap at the deceiving white ball on the table they call billiards. "Brujeria you call it." Angelito was the youngest of them, tall and skinny boy no more than sixteen.
"I'm on my way, Sweetheart" said Mister, as she looked at her phone and realized it was a quarter to twelve at night and she wasn't ready. She didn't expect him to agree to come over after her last bold and very forward text of "would you come over and sleep with me?"
The all too familiar tightening in her lower belly was becoming unbearable with every thought of him this past week. Her throat constricted when she summed up the courage to call and confront him on this matter, but her efforts would soon die once she looked at her phone and his number was at the...
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